Brown, R. in Tuckey, J.H. (1818), Appendix No. V: Observations, systematical and geographical, on Professor Christian Smith's collection of plants from the vicinity of the River Congo. Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816: 442 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1824), Violarieae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 1: 315 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 69 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 104-105 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 6 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 11 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 16, 233 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 394 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek hymen, membrane; anthere, anther: alluding to the membranous staminal tube."

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 591 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 52 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 145 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 260 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 55 [secondary reference]

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 190 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 210 [secondary reference]

Adams, L.G. & George, A.S. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Violaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 109-110 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Violaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 101 [secondary reference]

James, T.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Violaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 440 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 215 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. legitimate

Tonkinson, D. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Flora of Victoria 3: 370 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000), Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1: 60 [secondary reference]

James, T.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Violaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 440 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. legitimate

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