Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 169 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N. Australia. Victoria River and Beagle Valley, F. Mueller; N.W. Coast, Bynoe."

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

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

• Vernacular: Karedilla

Geesink, R. (6 October 1969), An account of the genus Portulaca in Indo-Australia and the Pacific (Portulacaceae). Blumea 17(1): 299 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Australia, North. Terr., Victoria R., and Beagle Valley, F. von Mueller (not in MEL, n.v.)."

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]

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

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 167-168 [secondary reference]

• Vernacular: ngoorrarr (Bardi)

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

• APC Dist.: WA, NSW

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