Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 488 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) v.v."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 95 [secondary reference]

Tate, R. (July 1895), A supplement to a census of the flora of extra-tropical South Australia. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 19: 82 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 353 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (September 1928), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 1095 [basionym]

basionym of: Polymeria lanata var. ambigua (R.Br.) Domin legitimate

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 286 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Polymeria lanata R.Br. legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 255 [secondary reference]

Johnson, R.W. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Convolvulaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 287, Fig. 379F [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 142 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 23 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. & Marchant, N.G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Convolvulaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 757, Fig. 228E [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 94 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Polymeria lanata var. ambigua (R.Br.) Domin legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Polymeria lanata var. ambigua (R.Br.) Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polymeria sp. (Chillagoe K.R.McDonald KRM328) [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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