Brown, R. in Flinders, M. (1814), General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis. A Voyage to Terra Australis 2, Appendix III: - [tax. nov.]

• Type: Meionectes brownii J.D.Hook.

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 486 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 50 [secondary reference]

Schindler, A.K. in Engler, H.G.A. (1905), Das Pflanzenreich 23: 24, 54 [basionym]

basionym of: Haloragis subsect. Meionectes (R.Br.) Schindl. legitimate

Orchard, A.E. (1975), Taxonomic Revisions in the Family Haloragaceae I. The Genera Haloragis, Haloragodendron, Glischrocaryon, Meziella and Gonocarpus. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 10: 65 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 265 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Haloragis J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Haloragis J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Meinoctes F.Muell. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA

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