Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 501 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(D.) v.v." [given by J.R.B.Boivin, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland 60 (1949) 109 as "Robert Brown, Derwent River (NSW, V, ISOTYPES)."].

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 88 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 102 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 151 [secondary reference]

Boivin, J.R.B (1949), Westringia, an Australian genus of Labiatae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 60: 109 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Westringia rubiifolia var. subsericea Benth. legitimate

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 556 [secondary reference]

Buchanan, A.M. in Buchanan, A.M. (ed.) (1999), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania Edn. 3: 31 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Westringia rubiaefolia R.Br. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Westringia rubiifolia R.Br. var. rubiifolia legitimate taxonomic synonym: Westringia rubiaefolia var. subsericea Benth. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Westringia rubiifolia var. subsericea Benth. legitimate

• APC Dist.: Tas

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 52 [secondary reference]

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