Fitzgerald, W.V. (1918), The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 3: 211 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Roebuck Bay (J. W. O. Tepper) ; Broome (W.V.F.)."

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gardenia. Flora of Central Australia: 284 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Gardenia sp. legitimate

Puttock, C.F. (10 March 1997), A revision of Gardenia (Rubiaceae) from northern and north-western Australia. Nuytsia 11(2): 250 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Roebuck Bay, Dampier District, Western Australia, October 1889, J.W.O. Tepper 48 (lecto - here chosen: MEL"

Puttock, C.F. (10 March 1997), A revision of Gardenia (Rubiaceae) from northern and north-western Australia. Nuytsia 11(2): 250 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Gardenia pyriformis subsp. keartlandii (Tate) Puttock legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Gardenia pyriformis subsp. keartlandii (Tate) Puttock legitimate

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