Mueller, F.J.H. von (1853), Diagnoses et descriptiones plantarum novarum, quas in Nova Hollandia australi praecipue in regionibus interioribus. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 25: 431 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Secus ripam lapidosam graminosam rivi Arkaba."

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 549 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Justicia procumbens L. legitimate

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 284 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Justicia procumbens L. legitimate by Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 777, Fig. 1111

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 259 [secondary reference]

Barker, W.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Pedaliaceae, Acanthaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 337, Fig. 440 [secondary reference]

pro parte taxonomic synonym: Justicia procumbens L. legitimate

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 605 [secondary reference]

common name: Red Trumpet [n/a] common name: Pink Tongues [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 61 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 152 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Acanthaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 458 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Justicia procumbens L. legitimate

Barker, R.M. (12 September 1986), A taxonomic revision of Australian Acanthaceae. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 9: 264 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Mueller s.n., x.1851, prope Akaba (MEL 601993); isolectotypes: (MEL 601992, MEL 601991)."

Barker, R.M. (12 September 1986), A taxonomic revision of Australian Acanthaceae. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 9: 264 [basionym]

basionym of: Rostellularia adscendens var. pogonanthera (F.Muell.) R.M.Barker legitimate

Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5: 13 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Rostellularia adscendens (R.Br.) R.M.Barker legitimate

Barker, R.M. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Acanthaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 853 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Rostellularia adscendens (R.Br.) R.M.Barker legitimate

Everett, J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Acanthaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 610 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Rostellularia adscendens var. pogonanthera (F.Muell.) R.M.Barker legitimate

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

misapplied to: Rostellularia adscendens (R.Br.) R.M.Barker var. adscendens legitimate by Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 61

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