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• Type: (not designated).

Dryander, J.C. in Koenig, K.D.E. & Sims, J. (ed.) (1 September 1806), Chloris Novae Hollandiae; or, Catalogue of the Plants of New Holland and Van Dieman's Island hitherto published, as far as they have come to the knowledge of J. Dryander. Annals of Botany 2(3): 517 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 405 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Tripterococcus Endl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Plokiostigma Schuch. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 26 [secondary reference]

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35(2-3): 342 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 128-129 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 100 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 359-360 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After John Stackhouse, 1742-1819, a Cornish botanist, who wrote chiefly on seaweeds."

Brouwer, F.I. (1938), The Genus Stackhousia in the Malay Archipelago. Blumea 3(1): 173-178 [secondary reference]

Brouwer, F.I. (December 1948), Stackhousiacceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(1): 35 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 537 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After John Stackhouse, 1742-1819, a Cornish botanist, who wrote chiefly on seaweeds."

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 107 [secondary reference]

common name: Candles [n/a] common name: Native Mignonette [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 304 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 248 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 111 [secondary reference]

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Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 189 [secondary reference]

Barker, W.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Stackhousiaceae, Rhamnaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 203 [secondary reference]

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Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 204 [secondary reference]

Barker, W.R. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Stackhousiaceae. Flora of Australia 22: 186-197 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Plokiostigma Schuch. legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Stackhousiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 37 [secondary reference]

Carlquist, S. (1987), Wood Anatomy and relationships of Stackhousiaceae. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 108: 473-480 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Stackhousiaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 442 [secondary reference]

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Wheeler, J.R. & Barker, W.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Stackhousiaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 586 [secondary reference]

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Barker, W.R. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Stackhousiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 49-50 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 893 [secondary reference]

Simmons, M.P. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Celastraceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 6: 54 [secondary reference]

Barker, W.R., Barker, R.M., Jessop, J. & Vonow, H. (ed.) (18 March 2005), Census of South Australian Vascular Plants 5th Edition. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens Supplement 1: 89-90 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Plokiostigma Schuch. legitimate

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

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 816 [secondary reference]

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