Hooker, J.D. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1857), Decriptions of Two New Dilleniaceous Plants from New Caledonia and Tropical Australia. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 9: 48 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "HAB. In Australia orientali tropica ad Cap. York. (J. Macgillivray legit, itinere navarchi Stanley, October, 1848)."

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 21 [basionym]

basionym of: Hibbertia candicans (Hook.f.) Benth. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Hemistema candicans A.D.Chapm. orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Hibbertia candicans (Hook.f.) Benth. legitimate

Toelken, H.R. (17 August 2023), Notes on Hibbertia (Dilleniaceae: subgen. Hemistemma) — 12. The northern Australian species of the H. banksii group. Swainsona 37: 23 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Holotype: Cape York, Oct. 1848, J. MacGillivray [Voyage of Rattlesnake Bot. 427] (K000687500)."

Toelken, H.R. (17 August 2023), Notes on Hibbertia (Dilleniaceae: subgen. Hemistemma) — 12. The northern Australian species of the H. banksii group. Swainsona 37: 23 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Hibbertia candicans (Hook.f.) Benth. legitimate

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