Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 269 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) v.v."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1873), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(62): 60 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(80): 191 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 83 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Commelina undulata R.Br. legitimate

Clarke, C.B. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. & Candolle, A.C.P. (1881), Commelinaceae. Monographiae Phanerogamarum 3: 188 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "ins. Sinus Carpentaria (R. Brown n. 5733; ...)"

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 122 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1883), A Synopsis of the Queensland Flora: 555 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3: 6 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 205 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1890), Catalogue of the Indigenous and Naturalised Plants of Queensland: 49 [secondary reference]

Moore, C. (1893), Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales: 436 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 277 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 509 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 509 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Commelina chamissonis Klotzsch ex C.B.Clarke legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 83

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 508 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Commelina undulata R.Br. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 83

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Commelina undulata R.Br. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 122

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Commelina undulata R.Br. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1883), A Synopsis of the Queensland Flora: 555

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Commelina undulata R.Br. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 205

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Commelina undulata R.Br. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1890), Catalogue of the Indigenous and Naturalised Plants of Queensland: 49

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Commelina undulata R.Br. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1873), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(62): 60

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Commelina undulata R.Br. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(80): 191

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Commelina undulata R.Br. legitimate by Moore, C. (1893), Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales: 436

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 103 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 180 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Commelina undulata R.Br. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 83

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: 213 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 227 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 175 [secondary reference]

common name: Scurvy Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 9 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Commelinceae,Eriocaulaceae, Centrolepidaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 427, Fig. 548B [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Commelina undulata R.Br. legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 47 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 21 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Commelinaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 76 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Commelina undulata R.Br. legitimate common name: Wandering Jew [n/a] common name: Scurvy Grass [n/a]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Commelinaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1020-1021, Fig. 306F [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Commelina undulata R.Br. legitimate

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Commelinaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 259 [secondary reference]

common name: Scurvy Grass [n/a]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 303 [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 202 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 130 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Commelina undulata R.Br. legitimate common name: Wandering Jew [n/a] common name: Scurvy Grass [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Commelyna ensifolia F.Muell. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Commelina ensifolia R.Br. var. ensifolia legitimate taxonomic synonym: Commelina ensifolia var. pubescens C.B.Clarke legitimate misapplication: Commelina undulata R.Br. legitimate by Black, J.M. (1948), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2 reprint, 1: 180 misapplication: Commelina undulata R.Br. legitimate by Jessop, J.P. in Black, J.M. (1978), Flora of South Australia Edn. 3, 1: 319

• APC Comment: Circumscription of this taxon in Qld includes Commelina undulata.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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