Planchon, J.E. in Hooker, W.J. (1847), Sur la nouvelle famille des Cochlospermees. London Journal of Botany 6: 307 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In insula Melville secud oram boreali-occidentalem Novae Hollandiae. Fraser in herb. Hook."

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 106 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 6 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 11 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 44 [basionym]

basionym of: Maximilianea fraseri (Planch.) Kuntze 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: 261 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cochlospermum heteronemum F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Maximilianea heteronema (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 249 [secondary reference]

Poppendieck, H.H. (1980), Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 101: 238-240 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Maximilianea fraseri (Planch.) Kuntze legitimate

Anonymous (1982), Annual Report for 1981/82. Annual Report of the Botany Branch and the Queensland Herbarium: 37 [secondary reference]

George, A.S. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Bixaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 87 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Maximilianea fraseri (Planch.) Kuntze legitimate common name: Kapok Bush [n/a]

• APC Comment: Infraspecific rank not recognised in WA.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 118 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cochlospermum heteronemum F.Muell. legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Bixaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 241, Fig. 67E [secondary reference]

common name: Cotton tree [n/a] common name: Kapok tree [n/a]

Moore, P. (2005), A guide to plants of inland Australia: 70 (photo) [secondary reference]

common name: Yellow Kapok [n/a]

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