White, C.T. (1939), Contributions to the Queensland Flora, No. 6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 50: 83 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Kelsey Creek, near Proserpine, H. Thorogood (No. 1, received March, 1937), flowering specimens (shrub, grows in thick mass almost impossible to penetrate; limbs often take root where they touch the ground; main flowering time seems to be May, June, and July.) ... Type in Brisbane."

• Etymology: (not specified) [but presumably named in honour of the collector of the type material, H.Thorogood]

Barker, R.M. (12 September 1986), A taxonomic revision of Australian Acanthaceae. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 9: 164-165 [secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1: 14 [secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2: 15 [secondary reference]

Bean, A.R. & Sharpe, P.R. (27 September 1991), Notes on Graptophyllum Nees (Acanthaceae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 3(3): 552 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Graptophyllum excelsum (F.Muell.) Druce legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Graptophyllum excelsum (F.Muell.) Druce legitimate

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