Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 345 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in India; in honorem Petr. Osbeck, Sveci, qui 1751. plantas Chinae & Javae periculoso itinere ediit, legit, examinavit, descripsit, communicavit."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1864), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 4(30): 160, 166 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Osbeckia angustifolia D. Don legitimate

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

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 209 [secondary reference]

Bakhuizen van den Brink, R.C. Jnr (1943), A contribution to the knowledge of the Melastomataceae occuring in the Malay Archipelago especially in the Netherlands East Indies: 48-49 [secondary reference]

Hansen, C. (1972), Osbeckia chinensis L. and O. zeylanica L.f. (Melastomataceae). Taxon 21(5-6): 656 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "As lectotype of O. chinensis - I will cite the sheet in the Linnean Society of London, without the fragment."

Hansen, C. (1977), Ginkgoana, contributions to the flora of Asia and the Pacific Region 4: 49-62 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1: 216 [secondary reference]

Whiffin, T.P. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Melastomataceae. Flora of Australia 18: 245 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld

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