Mueller, F.J.H. von (1863), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 4(25): 38 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ad fluvium Victoria River sicut ad rivos ei tributarios in locis udis umbrosis ripariis; F.M. In vicinia sinus Broad Sound; Bowman."

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 405 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1881), Plants of North-Western Australia. Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council: 9 [basionym]

basionym of: Oldenlandia galioides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 237, Fig. 209 [secondary reference]

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: 306 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Oldenlandia galioides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate

Marsden, C.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Rubiaceae (except Gardenia). Flora of Central Australia: 281 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Oldenlandia galioides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Rubiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 323, Fig. 46D [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]

James, T.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Hedyotis. Flora of New South Wales 3: 496 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Oldenlandia galioides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate

Koch, B.L. & Halford, D.A. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Hedyotis. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 916, Fig. 282E [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Oldenlandia galioides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate

Halford, D.A. (9 September 1992), Review of the genus Oldenlandia L. (Rubiaceae) and related genera in Australia. Austrobaileya 3(4): 692 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "[Northern Territory. DARWIN AND GULF REGION:] near Adam [MacAdam] Range along the rivulets, October 1885, Mueller (lecto (here designated): K(top right hand element))"

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 175 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Oldenlandia galioides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Oldenlandia. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 178 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Oldenlandia galioides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate

Jessup, L.W. (22 April 2002), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 2 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Oldenlandia galioides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Oldenlandia galioides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Oldenlandia galioides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate

Turner, I.M. (2016), Species names attributed to Bentham & Hooker's Genera Plantarum. Annales Botanici Fennici 53(5-6): 329 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Oldenlandia galioides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate

Gibbons, K.L. (June 2020), Hedyotis, Oldenlandia and related genera (Rubiaceae: Spermacoceae) in Australia: New genera and new combinations in an Asian-Australian-Pacific lineage. Taxon 69(3): 533 [basionym]

basionym of: Scleromitrion galioides (F.Muell.) K.L.Gibbons legitimate

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