Mueller, F.J.H. von (30 September 1857), Account of some new Australian plants. Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria 2: 68 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Richmond River. C. Moore. Moreton Bay. Hill and Muller."

Seemann, B.C. (1866), Flora Vitiensis 3: 114 [basionym]

basionym of: Nothopanax elegans (C.Moore & F.Muell.) Seem. legitimate

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 383 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Nothopanax elegans (C.Moore & F.Muell.) Seem. legitimate

Hill, W. (1880), Collection of Queensland Timbers - Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880: 10 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 61 [secondary reference]

Harms, H.A.T. in Engler, H.G.A. & Prantl, K.A.E. (ed.) (28 December 1894), Araliaceae. Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien III, 8(111): 45 [basionym]

basionym of: Polyscias elegans (C.Moore & F.Muell.) Harms legitimate

Maiden, J.H. (1904), The Forest Flora of New South Wales 1(6): 138-143, pl. 24 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Nothopanax elegans (C.Moore & F.Muell.) Seem. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Aralia elegans A.Cunn. ex W.Hill legitimate common name: Black Pencil Cedar [n/a]

Viguier, R. (1905), Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 52: 308 [basionym]

basionym of: Tieghemopanax elegans (C.Moore & F.Muell.) R.Vig. legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 151 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 236 [secondary reference]

common name: Mowbulan Whitewood [n/a]

• Vernacular: Greyanger

Domin, K. (September 1928), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 1037 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Polyscias elegans (C.Moore & F.Muell.) Harms legitimate

Hutchinson, J. (1967), Dicotyledones. The Genera of Flowering Plants (Angiospermae) 2: 58 [basionym]

basionym of: Gelibia elegans (C.Moore & F.Muell.) Hutch. legitimate

Philipson, W.R. (1979), Araliaceae - I. Flora Malesiana Series I 9(1): 77 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Polyscias elegans (C.Moore & F.Muell.) Harms legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Araliaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 237 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Polyscias elegans (C.Moore & F.Muell.) Harms legitimate

Floyd, A.G. (1989), Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia: 70 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Polyscias elegans (C.Moore & F.Muell.) Harms legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Polyscias elegans (C.Moore & F.Muell.) Harms legitimate

Doweld, A.B. (2014), New names in Aralia (Araliaceae), living and fossil. Phytotaxa 297(1): 64 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Aralia elegans A.Cunn. ex W.Hill legitimate

Bean, A.R. (3 November 2015), A conspectus of Polyscias J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. (Araliaceae) in Queensland, Australia. Austrobaileya 9(3): 448 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Queensland. Moreton Bay, [December 1856], W. Hill & F. Mueller (lecto: MEL 672695 [here designated])."

Bean, A.R. (3 November 2015), A conspectus of Polyscias J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. (Araliaceae) in Queensland, Australia. Austrobaileya 9(3): 448 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Polyscias elegans (C.Moore & F.Muell.) Harms legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Polyscias elegans (C.Moore & F.Muell.) Harms legitimate

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