Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (1785), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 1(2): 633 [tax. nov.]

Curtis, W. in Curtis, W. (ed.) (1799), Justicia peruviana, Peruvian Justicia. Botanical Magazine 12: pl. 430 [secondary reference]

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

misapplied to: Justicia caudata A.Gray legitimate by Curtis, W. in Curtis, W. (ed.) (1799), Justicia peruviana, Peruvian Justicia. Botanical Magazine 12: pl. 430

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