Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 453 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) v.v.".[given by P.W.Leenhouts, Bull. Jard. Bot. État. 32 (1962) 452 as "R. Brown (BM)."]

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 357 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Mitrasacme capillaris Wall. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 90 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 337 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 140 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Spigeliaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 290 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Mitrasacme malaccensis Wight legitimate taxonomic synonym: Mitrasacme pygmaea var. malaccensis (Wight) H.Hara legitimate

Dunlop, C.R. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Mitrasacme. Flora of Australia 28: 37, Fig. 37H, Map 42 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Mitrasacme capillaris Wall. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Mitrasacme malaccensis Wight legitimate taxonomic synonym: Mitrasacme pygmaea var. malaccensis (Wight) H.Hara legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym: Mitrasacme pygmaea R.Br. var. pygmaea legitimate taxonomic synonym: Mitrasacme capillaris Wall. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Mitrasacme malaccensis Wight legitimate taxonomic synonym: Mitrasacme pygmaea var. malaccensis (Wight) H.Hara legitimate

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

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