Summerhayes, V.S. (1930), A revision of the Australian species of Frankenia. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 48: 353 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Thevenard Peninsula, Great Australian Bight, Nov. 1915, J.M. Black 5! Ardrossan, 1879, O. Tepper! (Herb. Adel.). E .Franklin I., dry cliffs and travertine pavement, 11/1/1922, Osborn! Fowler's Bay, Nov. 1907, Mrs. T. Brown! WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Eucla, Okyn! (Diels 7841, Herb. Berol.). Shore of Bay 3, 1802, R. Brown 5199! Israelite Bay, 1885, Brooke! (Diels 7840, Herb. Berol.) 60 k. N. of Esperance, on salty clayey-sand in a hollow, 60m., Nov. 1901, Diels 5450!"

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 585, Fig. 767 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Frankenia fruticulosa DC. legitimate by Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 393, Pl. 36 (10-14)

Barnsley, B. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Frankeniaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 117-118 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 118 [secondary reference]

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Frankeniaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 373, Fig. 77a [secondary reference]

common name: Small-leaf Seaheath [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Frankenia sessilis Summerh. var. sessilis legitimate taxonomic synonym: Frankenia sessilis var. major Summerh. legitimate misapplication: Frankenia fruticulosa DC. legitimate by Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 393, Pl. 36 (10-14)

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, Vic

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