Moore, S. le M. (7 December 1920), A contribution to the Flora of Australia. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 45: 215 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N. Australia, Arnhem Bay; R. Brown, dist. no. 3597."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: NT

Barrett, R.L. & Telford, I.R.H. (3 November 2015), Two new species of Phyllanthus from northern Australia and notes on Phyllanthus, Sauropus and Synostemon (Phyllanthaceae) in Western Australia. Nuytsia 26: 160 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Sauropus lissocarpus (S.Moore) Airy Shaw legitimate

Telford, I.R.H., Pruesapan, K., Welzen, P.C. van & Bruhl, J.J. (29 November 2016), Morphological and molecular data show Synostemon trachyspermus (Phyllanthaceae, Phyllantheae) to be a heterogeneous species assemblage. Australian Systematic Botany 29(3): 228 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Northern Territory: N. Australia, Arnhem [S] Bay, [4 February 1803] R.Brown s.n. [Bennett number 3597]. Lectotype (here designated): BM 40690."

Telford, I.R.H., Pruesapan, K., Welzen, P.C. van & Bruhl, J.J. (29 November 2016), Morphological and molecular data show Synostemon trachyspermus (Phyllanthaceae, Phyllantheae) to be a heterogeneous species assemblage. Australian Systematic Botany 29(3): 228 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Synostemon lissocarpus (S.Moore) I.Telford & Pruesapan legitimate

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