Airy Shaw, H.K. & Turrill, W.B. (18 April 1928), Asperulae Australienses. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 3: 87-88 [tax. nov.]

• Comment: Published as Asperula conferta [beta] abbreviata. It is the "var. [beta] internodiis folio brevioribus, caule abbreviato" of Hooker (in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi 464 bis, 1847).

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 275 [secondary reference]

Thompson, I.R. (5 January 2009), A revision of Asperula and Galium (Rubiaceae: Rubiaceae) in Australia. Muelleria 27(1): 57 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Asperula conferta Hook.f. legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Asperula conferta var. abreviata A.D.Chapm. orth. var.

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

taxonomic synonym of: Asperula conferta Hook.f. legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 72 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Asperula conferta Hook.f. legitimate

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