Mueller, F.J.H. von (1859), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 1(7): 171 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In collibus glareosis ad flumen Victoriae."

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 170 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1881), Plants of North-Western Australia. Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council: 7 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 27 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (13 May 1889), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 4: 5 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 49, Fig. 33 [secondary reference]

common name: Heart-plant [n/a]

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 651 [secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 228 [secondary reference]

Geesink, R. (6 October 1969), An account of the genus Portulaca in Indo-Australia and the Pacific (Portulacaceae). Blumea 17(1): 288 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Portulaca armitii F.Muell. legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 234 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1: 242 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 178 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Portulacaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 104, 106, Fig. 13I [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 76 [secondary reference]

West, J.G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Portulacaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 136, Fig. 36A [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 167 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Portulaca bicolor var. pupurea Poelln. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Portulaca bicolor F.Muell. var. bicolor legitimate taxonomic synonym: Portulaca bicolor var. rosea Maiden & Betche legitimate taxonomic synonym: Portulaca bicolor var. purpurea Poelln. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [secondary reference]

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]

Brown, G.K. & Bostock, P.D. (December 2019), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2018 to 2019. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2019: 12 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Portulaca sp. (Bang Bang A.Schmid AS158) [n/a]

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