Thunberg, C.P. (August 1784), Flora Japonica: 257 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Crescit in littore Papenberg et Satsuma. E Macao chinae missa quoque mihi suit a Dn. P.I. Bladh."

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 511 [secondary reference]

Sprengel, C.P.J. (1825), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 2: 756 [secondary reference]

Steudel, E.G. von (1841), Nomenclator Botanicus Edn. 2, 2(12-13): 777 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856), Note on the Voyage of the North Australian Exploring Expedition, from Sydney to the mouth of the Victoria River. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 8: 51 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 67 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Vitex trifolia var. obovata Benth. legitimate

Makino, T. (20 May 1903), Observations on the flora of Japan. Botanical Magazine (Tokyo) 17(195): 92 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Vitex trifolia var. ovata (Thunb.) Makino legitimate

Domin, K. (September 1928), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 1114, Fig. 181 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Vitex trifolia var. obovata Benth. legitimate

Moldenke, H.N. (1958), Materials toward a monograph of the genus Vitex. X. Phytologia 6(3): 183 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Vitex trifolia var. simplicifolia Cham. 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: 292 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Vitex trifolia L. legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 256 [secondary reference]

Munir, A.A. (13 March 1987), A taxonomic revision of the genus Vitex L. (Verbenaceae) in Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 10(1): 53 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Vitex rotundifolia L.f. legitimate

de Kok, R.P.J. (2007), The genus Vitex L. (Lamiaceae) in New Guinea and the South Pacific Islands. Kew Bulletin 62(4): 599 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Vitex trifolia subsp. litoralis Steenis legitimate

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