Schumann, K. in Engler, H.G.A. & Prantl, K.A.E. (ed.) (August 1891), Rubiaceae [continued]. Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien IV, 4(64): 144 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Spermacoce pogostoma Benth. legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 260 [secondary reference]

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

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 72 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Spermacoce. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 928 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Spermacoce pogostoma Benth. legitimate

Harwood, R. & Dessein, S. (20 May 2005), Australian Spermacoce (Rubiaceae: Spermacoceae). 1 Northern Territory. Australian Systematic Botany 18(4): 353 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Spermacoce pogostoma Benth. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Spermacoce pogostoma Benth. legitimate

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