Stanley, T.D. (21 August 1990), Two new species and a new name in Commelina L (Commelinaceae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 3(2): 238 [nom. nov.]

replaced synonym: Commelina acuminata Ewart & McLennan nom. illeg.

• Comment: Non Commelina acuminata Poiret.

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Commelinaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1020, Fig. 306E [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Commelina acuminata Ewart & McLennan nom. illeg.

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]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Commelina acuminata Ewart & McLennan nom. illeg. misapplication: Commelina lanceolata R.Br. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 47

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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