Mueller, F.J.H. von (1860), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 2(11): 19 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In campis arenosis et clivis rupestribus ad flumen Murchison. A. Oldfield."

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 102 [secondary reference]

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

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 378 [basionym]

basionym of: Lobelia oldfieldii (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

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

Hopper, S.D., van Leeuwen, S.J., Brown, A.P. & Patrick, S.J. (1990), Western Australia's Endangered Flora: 96, 119, 137 [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): 503 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "(MEL). Isolectotypes: MEL,K. There are two specimens at MEL which are candidates for the type, but only one is labelled as collected by Oldfield. This is selected as the lectotype." More than one collection relates to the protologue.

Carolin, R.C. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1992), Scaevola. Flora of Australia 35: 119, Map 144 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Lobelia oldfieldii (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scaevola oldfieldii var. tomentosa E.Pritz. legitimate

Howell, G.J. (31 July 1996), Reappraisal of Scaevola oldfieldii (Goodeniaceae) and recognition of a new species S. kallophylla from south-west Western Australia. Nuytsia 11(1): 26-28, Fig. 1 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Murchison River, [Western Australia], A. Oldfield (lecto: MEL 1521413; isolecto: MEL 152412, MEL 588153)."

nomenclatural synonym: Lobelia oldfieldii (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

• Etymology: "Named on honour of A. Oldfield."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Lobelia oldfieldii (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Scaevola oldfieldii F.Muell. var. oldfieldii legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scaevola oldfieldii var. tomentosa E.Pritz. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

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