Tate, R. in Spencer, W.B. (ed.) (March 1896), Botany. Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia 3: 169, 189-190 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Reedy creek, sand plain north-east of Glen Edith, slope of Mereenie Bluff, and at Glen Helen!"

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 262 [secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Goodeniaceae, Brunoniaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 358 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 39 [secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. (12 April 1990), Nomenclatural notes and new taxa in the genus Goodenia (Goodeniaceae). Telopea 3(4): 551 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "NORTHERN TERRITORY: Glen Edith, R.Tate, June 1894 (AD). ISOLECTOTYPES: K,MEL 23785."

Carolin, R.C. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1992), Goodenia. Flora of Australia 35: 255, map 332 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: NT

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