Naudin, C.V. (1850), Annales des Sciences Naturelles ser. 3, 14: 59 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In Nova-Hollandia prope Port-Essington, Armstrong. Planta a clar. W. Hooker communicata."

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 291 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 60 [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: 273 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 252 [secondary reference]

Hansen, C. (1977), Ginkgoana, contributions to the flora of Asia and the Pacific Region 4: 72-75 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Osbeckia koolpinyahensis O.Schwarz legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 133 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 47 [secondary reference]

Whiffin, T.P. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Melastomataceae. Flora of Australia 18: 247, Figs 62, 86, Map 345 APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Osbeckia perangusta F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Osbeckia koolpinyahensis O.Schwarz legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Melastomataceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 549-551, Fig. 166C [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 141, Fig. 44 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B., Elick, R.W. & Ford, A.J. (1999), Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs. Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs: 72 [secondary reference]

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