Borssum Waalkes, J. van (1966), Malesian Malvaceae revisited. Blumea 14(1): 188 [comb. et stat. nov.]

basionym: Sida carpinifolia L.f. nom. illeg.

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Malvaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 227 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Malvaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 226 [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: 306 [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 123 [secondary reference]

common name: Spinyhead Sida [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Sida carpinifolia L.f. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Malvastrum carpinifolium A.Gray legitimate

• APC Comment: Records of this taxon from WA represent Sida acuta subsp. acuta (R.M.Barker, pers. comm. 2007).
• APC Dist.: NI (naturalised)

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Sida acuta Burm.f. legitimate by Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Malvaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 226

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Sida acuta Burm.f. legitimate

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