Barker, R.M. (12 September 1986), A taxonomic revision of Australian Acanthaceae. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 9: 270 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Byrnes 1270, 9.i.1969, 8 miles E Pine Creek (NT); isotype: (BRI)."

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 52-53 [secondary reference]

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

pro parte misapplication: Justicia procumbens L. legitimate by Bentham, G. (1834), Labiatarum Genera et Species 5: 549

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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