Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1857), Nova genera et species aliquot rariores in Plagis Australiae Intratropicis nuperrime detecta. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 9: 15 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In collibus planitiebusque siccis praesertim lapidosis, ad flumen Victoria, in tractu M'Adam's Range aliisque locis."

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

Fitzgerald, W.V. (2 June 1906), Some species of West Kimberley plants. Botanical References. The Western Mail 21(1066): 10, 24 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1928), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 981 [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: 261 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Cochlospermum fraseri Planch. legitimate

Poppendieck, H.H. (1980), A monograph of Cochlospermaceae. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 101(2): 240 [basionym]

basionym of: Cochlospermum fraseri subsp. heteronemum (F.Muell.) Poppend. legitimate

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

• Lectotype: "North Australia, ad flumen Victoria, F.v. Mueller (MEL, lectotype; K, isotype)."

George, A.S. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Bixaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 87 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cochlospermum fraseri subsp. heteronemum (F.Muell.) Poppend. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Cochlospermum fraseri Planch. legitimate

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