Mueller, F.J.H. von (October 1859), Report on the Plants Collected During Mr. Babbage's Expedition into the North West Interior of South Australia in 1858. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly 3(1): 7 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Lake Gregory, Darling River."

• Etymology: "I named this species after my university friend, Fr. Krichauff, Esq., who, as a late member of the Legislative Assembly, was one of the promoters of the South Australian expedition."

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 216 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (September 1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(78): 129 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (September 1877), List of the plants obtained during Mr. C. Giles's travels in Australia in 1875 and 1876. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 15: 271 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 15 [secondary reference]

• Comment: Cited as "Hibiscus krichauffii".

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1885), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 2: 3 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 26 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 54 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 61 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 381 [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Hibiscus krichauffii F.Muell. orth. var.

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 566 [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Hibiscus krichauffii F.Muell. orth. var.

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 223 [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Hibiscus krichauffii F.Muell. orth. var.

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 480 [secondary reference]

common name: Velvet-leaf Hibiscus [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 143 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Malvaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 209, Fig. 242B [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 113 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 46 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. & Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Malvaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 330 [secondary reference]

common name: Velvet Leaf Hibiscus [n/a]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 306 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. & Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Malvaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 330 [secondary reference]

common name: Velvet-leaf Hibiscus [n/a]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 278 [secondary reference]

common name: Velvet-leaf Hibiscus [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Hibiscus krichauffi F.Muell. orth. var. orthographic variant: Hibiscus krichauffii F.Muell. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Hibiscus krichauffianus F.Muell. var. krichauffianus legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

McLay, T.G.B., Barker, R.M. & Albrecht, D.E. (15 December 2023), Morphological and environmental variation within Hibiscus krichauffianus (Malvaceae), and the recognition of two new species, H. verecundus and H. calcareus. Australian Systematic Botany 36(6): 466-471, Figs 1 (map), 2a, 3a, 4a [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: " ‘Lake Gregory, Darling River’. Type: So. [South] Australia, s. dat., Mr Babbage 1, Com. R.Schomburgk 9/71 (lecto, here designated: K000659853! ..."

nomenclatural synonym: Hibiscus krichauffianus F.Muell. var. krichauffianus legitimate

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