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• Type: "Australia borealis; prope Portum Darwin (Schultz n. 280 a R. Schomburgk comm.)."

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

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• APC Dist.: NT

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