Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 97 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Merkusia macrostachya de Vriese legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 88 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 159 [secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. (12 April 1990), Nomenclatural notes, new taxa and the systematic arrangement in the genus Scaevola (Goodeniaceae) including synonyms. Telopea 3(4): 497 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Merkusia macrostachya de Vriese legitimate

Carolin, R.C. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1992), Scaevola. Flora of Australia 35: 111, Map 129 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Merkusia macrostachya de Vriese legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scaevola scabrida W.Fitzg. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Goodeniaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 902-903, Fig. 278D [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Scaevola scabrida W.Fitzg. legitimate

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 109 [secondary reference]

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