Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(44): 115 [autonym]

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]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 90 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pollichia zeylanica (Burm.f.) F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trichodesma zeylanicum f. angustifolium Domin legitimate

Craven, L.A. & Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Boraginaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 785 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Trichodesma zeylanicum subsp. euzeylanicum Brand nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld

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