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• Type: Phyla chinensis Lour.

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: 289 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 414 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 209 [secondary reference]

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Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Verbenaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 614-615 [secondary reference]

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Barker, R.M. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Verbenaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 361-362 [secondary reference]

Munir, A.A. (23 July 1993), A taxonomic revision of the genus Phyla Lour. (Verbenaceae) in Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 15(2): 110, Map 1 APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Platonia Raf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Diototheca Raf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Piarimula Raf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Panope Raf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cryptocalyx Benth. legitimate pro parte misapplication: Lippia L. legitimate by Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 34

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), NT, SA (naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Verbenaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 417 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Verbenaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 143-144 [secondary reference]

Atkins, S. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Verbenaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 7: 462 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 659 [secondary reference]

O'Leary, N. & Mulgura, M.E. (2012), A taxonomic revision of the genus Phyla (Verbenaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 98(4): 578-579 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Diototheca Raf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cryptocalyx Benth. legitimate

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