Loureiro, J. de (1790), Flora Cochinchinensis Edn. 1, 1: 14 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Salomonia cantoniensis Lour.

• Comment: nom. cons. (ref. I.C.B.N. (1988) No. 4277).

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 138 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 8 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 14 [secondary reference]

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• Etymology: Named after King Solomon.

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 775 [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Polygalaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 486 [secondary reference]

Eriksen, B. & Persson, C. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Polygalaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 9: 360, Figs. 125H, 128E, 129D [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 761 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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