Gardner, C.A. (1923), Botanical notes : Kimberley Division of Western Australia. Bulletin (Western Australian Forests Department) 32: 89 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Four to eight miles south of Vansittart Bay, on sandstone elevations in sandy soil among rocks. Fl. m. June–August."

Symon, D.E. (14 August 1981), A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 4: 310-313, Figs 146, 147, 158G-H, Map 11 [secondary reference]

Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Solanaceae. Flora of Australia 29: 174-175, Map 186 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 149 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Solanaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 736, Fig. 227C [secondary reference]

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 539 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Solanum vansittartensis C.A.Gardner orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA

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