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: 303 [nom. nov.]

replaced synonym: Spermacoce laevigata F.Muell. legitimate

• Etymology: "Geeingwa is the name used for this species by the natives of Groote Eylandt."
• Comment: nom. nov., non Borreria laevigata M.Martens & Galeotti (1844).

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 154 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Spermacoce. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 926 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Spermacoce laevigata F.Muell. legitimate

Harwood, R. & Dessein, S. (20 May 2005), Australian Spermacoce (Rubiaceae: Spermacoceae). 1 Northern Territory. Australian Systematic Botany 18(4): 344 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Spermacoce laevigata F.Muell. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Spermacoce laevigata F.Muell. legitimate

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Spermacoce laevigata F.Muell. legitimate

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