Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1836), Compositae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 5: 32 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "in Indiae orient. prov. Silhet legit cl. Wallich."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(49): 234 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 77 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Vernonia vagens A.D.Chapm. orth. var.

• APC Comment: A Malesian taxon recorded by F.Mueller, Fragm. 6: 234 (1836), but not known to occur in Australia.

Ghafoor, A. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Subfam. Cichorioideae Trib. 3. Vernonieae. Flora of Australia 37: 191 [secondary reference]

• Text: "Native to India, Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand, listed for Australia by F.Mueller (Fragm. 6: 234 (1868)) on the basis of a Dallachy specimen from Rockingham Bay. This specimen has not been seen but the record is almost certainly in error. The species is currently included in Decaneuropsis."

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