Hasskarl, J.C. (1869), Flora: oder Allgemeine Botanischer Zeitung 52: 365 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Das Vaterland dieser Art ist Port Jackson an der Osküste Neuhollands, wo sie von Ferd. Bauer gesammelt wurde, sowie in Arnhem's Land am Golf von Carpentaria an der Nordküste Neuhollands, wo sie in 1802/3 gesammelt und später A. Richard mitgetheilt wurde, in dessen Herbarium (jetzt des Grafen Franqueville) sie sich befindet."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 122 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (13 May 1889), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 4: 7 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 565, Fig. 547 [secondary reference]

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 321 [secondary reference]

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: 213 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 227 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 47 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 21 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Commelinaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1019, Fig. 306A [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 202 [secondary reference]

• Vernacular: rambag (Bardi)

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

isonym: Cartonema parviflorum Hassk. isonym

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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