Barker, W.R. (11 June 1992), New Australasian species of Peplidium and Glossostigma (Scrophulariaceae). Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 15(1): 71 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "W.R.Barker 3545, 16.ix.1978, South Australia. Region 2: Lake Eyre Basin. Stuart Highway, ca. 46 km by road S of Coober Pedy (29°25'S 134°48½'E). Prolific, intermixed with Peplidium spp. ( Barker 3544, 3546) and Limosella curdieana. Small claypan, dried out, in gibber plain; low open shrubland. Prostrate, large– succulent–leaved herb. Corolla reduced, but 2–lipped, the upper shorter than the lower, the lips palish blue with yellow–green spot on lower side of mouth, stigma slowly irritable."

taxonomic synonym: Microcarpaea ∕ Peplidium sp. D [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Peplidium sp. D [n/a] misapplication: Peplidium humifusum Delile legitimate by Tate, R. (1890), A Handbook of the Flora of Extratropical South Australia: 153 misapplication: Peplidium maritimum (L.f.) Asch. legitimate by Black, J.M. (1933), Additions to the Flora of South Australia. No. 31. Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 156-157

Barker, W.R. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 562 [secondary reference]

Barker, R.M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (September 1993), Scrophulariaceae. A list of the vascular plants of South Australia Edn. 4: 81 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Peplidium sp. D [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Microcarpaea ∕ Peplidium sp. D [n/a] pro parte misapplication: Peplidium humifusum Delile legitimate by Tate, R. (1890), A Handbook of the Flora of Extratropical South Australia: 153 misapplication: Peplidium maritimum (L.f.) Asch. legitimate by Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 510

• APC Dist.: NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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