Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 437 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) B. v.s."

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 514 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 98 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 363, Fig. 340 [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: 296 [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): 258 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 74 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J., Latz, P.K., Barritt, M.J., Cowie, I.D. & Albrecht, D.E. (1995), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory: 102 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld

Holland, A.E. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Scrophulariaceae. Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens: 186 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Buechnera tetragona F.Muell. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld

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