Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1828), Melastomaceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 3: 185 [tax. nov.]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 283 [secondary reference]

common name: Velvet Tree [n/a] common name: Purple Plague [n/a]

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

• APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised)

Goldenberg, R., Almeda, F., Caddah, M.K., Martins, A.B., Meirelles, J., Michelangeli, F.A. & Weiss, M. (2013), Nomenclator botanicus for the neotropical genus Miconia (Melastomataceae: Miconieae). Phytotaxa 106(1): 28 [secondary reference]

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