Mueller, F.J.H. von (1861), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 2(16): 152 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In plaga alta rupestri (Sandstone-Tableland) inter flumina Victoria et South Alligator River, nec non prope montes McAdam Range."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 50 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 237 [basionym]

basionym of: Myrobalanus pterocarya (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 180, Fig. 155 [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: 266 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 250 [secondary reference]

Byrnes, N.B. (1977), A revision of Combretaceae in Australia. Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium 20: 21-23 [secondary reference]

• Type: "`Arnhem' Land, F. Mueller (K, holo)."

orthographic variant: Terminalia pterocarpa Benth. orth. var.

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 21 [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Combretaceae. Flora of Australia 18: 273, Fig 95, Map 366 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Myrobalanus pterocarya (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 148, Fig. 46 [secondary reference]

Barrett, R.L. (10 September 2015), Examining range disjunctions in Australian Terminalia (Combretaceae) with taxonomic revision of the T. canescens and T. cunninghamii species complexes. Australian Systematic Botany 28(1): 31-33, Figs 3 (map), 8-9 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Myrobalanus pterocarya (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Terminalia pterocarpa Benth. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Myrobalanus pterocarya (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT

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