Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 281 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N. Australia. Islands of the N. coast, R. Brown; Liverpool river, A. Cunningham; Fitzmaurice river and Macadam range, F. Mueller."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(46): 172 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Elaeocarpus arnhemicus F.Muell. legitimate

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: 258 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Elaeocarpus arnhemicus F.Muell. legitimate

Coode, M.J.E. (12 June 1978), A conspectus of Elaeocarpaceae in Papuasia. Brunonia 1(2): 202 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "F.Mueller (lecto K; isolecto MEL n.v., pers. comm.), Rivulets of the Fitzmaurice River, N. Australia."

Coode, M.J.E. (12 June 1978), A conspectus of Elaeocarpaceae in Papuasia. Brunonia 1(2): 202 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Elaeocarpus arnhemicus F.Muell. legitimate

Coode, M.J.E. (1984), Elaeocarpus in Australia and New Zealand. Kew Bulletin 39(3): 538 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Elaeocarpus arnhemicus F.Muell. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Elaeocarpus arnhemicus F.Muell. legitimate

Baba, Y., Rossetto, M. & Crayn, D.M. (16 April 2020), Identifying evolutionary lineages in the Elaeocarpus obovatus complex: population genetics and morphometric analyses support a new subspecies, Elaeocarpus obovatus subsp.umbratilis, from northern Queensland, Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 33(4): 373 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Elaeocarpus arnhemicus F.Muell. legitimate

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