Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 102 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N. Australia. Vansittart Bay and Greville island, Regent's river, N.W. coast, A. Cunningham; Victoria river, F. Mueller; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 860."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 19 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 34 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 245 [secondary reference]

Airy Shaw, H.K. (26 May 1980), New or noteworthy Australian Euphorbiaceae - II. Muelleria 4(3): 215 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Phyllanthus ciccoides Müll.Arg. legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 108 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Phyllanthus ciccoides Müll.Arg. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Phyllanthus ciccoides Müll.Arg. legitimate

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: 151-152 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Phyllanthus reticulatus Poir. legitimate by Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 622, Fig. 190D, 191D misapplication: Phyllanthus ciccoides Müll.Arg. legitimate by Woirnarski, J.C.Z. (1992), A Survey of the wildlife and vegetation of Purnululu (Bungle Bungle) National Park and adjacent area. Research bulletin (Western Australia. Dept. of Conservation and Land Management) 6: 33 misapplication: Phyllanthus ciccoides Müll.Arg. legitimate by Liddle, D.T., Russell-Smith, J., Brock, J., Leach, G.J. & Connors, G.T. (1994), Atlas of the Vascular Rainforest Plants of the Northern Territory: 47 misapplication: Phyllanthus reticulatus Poir. legitimate by Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 231, Fig. 75

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (31 March 2016), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2015. Nuytsia 27: 14 [unsourced misapplied]

misapplied to: Phyllanthus ciccoides Müll.Arg. legitimate

Bouman, R.W., Keßler, P.J.A., Telford, I.R.H., Bruhl, J.J., Strijk, J.S., Saunders, R.M.K., Esser, H.-J., Falcón-Hidalgo, B. & van Welzen, P.C. (18 March 2022), A revised phylogenetic classification of tribe Phyllantheae (Phyllanthaceae). Phytotaxa 540(1): 18 [basionym]

basionym of: Kirganelia baccata (F.Muell. ex Benth.) R.W.Bouman legitimate

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (21 March 2023), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2022. Nuytsia 34: 15 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Kirganelia baccata (F.Muell. ex Benth.) R.W.Bouman legitimate

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