Schwarz, O.K.A. (28 December 1927), Plantae novae vel minus cognitae Australiae tropicae. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 24(4-13): 100 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Koolpinyah; open forest (Bleeser no. 451)."

• Comment: nom. illeg., non (Pursh) Farw. (1922)

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 260 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 72 [secondary reference]

Puttock, C.F. (10 March 1997), A revision of Gardenia (Rubiaceae) from northern and north-western Australia. Nuytsia 11(2): 258 [secondary reference]

• Neotype: " (here designated): road between 3-ways and Garden Point, Melville Island, Darwin & Gulf District, Northern Territory, 23 June 1971, M.I.H. Brooker 3182 (neo: DNA 16487; iso: CANB, NSW)."

Puttock, C.F. (10 March 1997), A revision of Gardenia (Rubiaceae) from northern and north-western Australia. Nuytsia 11(2): 258 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Gardenia schwarzii Puttock legitimate

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