Mueller, F.J.H. von (1859), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 1(4): 69 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In collibus petraeis Australiae borealis et boreali-occidentalis."

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 234 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Melhania incana B.Heyne ex Wight & Arn. legitimate

Domin, K. (1928), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 971-972 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 225 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Melhania incana B.Heyne ex Wight & Arn. legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 248 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 494-495 [secondary reference]

common name: Velvet Hibiscus [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 205 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hibiscus krichauffianus var. chippendalei Fryxell legitimate

Mitchell, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Sterculiaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 220, Fig. 256 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2: 192 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 115 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Sterculiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 90, Fig. 11I [secondary reference]

misapplication: Melhania incana B.Heyne ex Wight & Arn. legitimate by Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 384

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 77 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Sterculiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 304 [secondary reference]

Wilson, A.J.G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Sterculiaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 192, Fig. 52A [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 312 [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 190 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B., Elick, R.W. & Ford, A.J. (1999), Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs. Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs: 89 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Sterculiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 304 [secondary reference]

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 544 [secondary reference]

Guymer, G.P. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Sterculiaceae. Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens: 192 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 533-534 [secondary reference]

common name: Velvet Hibiscus [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Melhania oblongifolia F.Muell. f. oblongifolia legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sideria reverta Ewart & A.H.K.Petrie legitimate doubtful misapplication: Melhania incana B.Heyne ex Wight & Arn. legitimate by Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xlii misapplication: Melhania incana B.Heyne ex Wight & Arn. legitimate by Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 234 misapplication: Melhania incana B.Heyne ex Wight & Arn. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1899), The Queensland Flora 1: 143 misapplication: Melhania incana B.Heyne ex Wight & Arn. legitimate by Ewart, A.J. & Davies, O.B. (1917), The Flora of the Northern Territory: 189 misapplication: Melhania incana B.Heyne ex Wight & Arn. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (May 1931), Part III. Geraniaceae–Compositae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 80 misapplication: Melhania incana B.Heyne ex Wight & Arn. legitimate by Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 570-571, Fig. 743

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

McLay, T.G.B., Barker, R.M. & Albrecht, D.E. (15 December 2023), Morphological and environmental variation within Hibiscus krichauffianus (Malvaceae), and the recognition of two new species, H. verecundus and H. calcareus. Australian Systematic Botany 36(6): 471 [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Hibiscus krichauffianus var. chippendalei Fryxell legitimate

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