Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 443 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in paludibus Caribaearum, Malabariae."

Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856), Note on the Voyage of the North Australian Exploring Expedition, from Sydney to the mouth of the Victoria River. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 8: 51 [secondary reference]

Ding Hou (September 1958), Rhizophoraceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 5(4): 454 [secondary reference]

McCusker, A. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Rhizophoraceae. Flora of Australia 22: 2 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Rhizophora mucronata Poir. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856), Note on the Voyage of the North Australian Exploring Expedition, from Sydney to the mouth of the Victoria River. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 8: 51

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

misapplied to: Rhizophora mucronata Poir. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856), Note on the Voyage of the North Australian Exploring Expedition, from Sydney to the mouth of the Victoria River. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 8: 51

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