Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 481 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) v.v."

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 542 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Nelsonia rotundifolia R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Nelsonia tomentosa Willd. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 99 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 493 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Nelsonia brunelloides (Lam.) Kuntze legitimate

Domin, K. (1929), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 1155 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Nelsonia brunelloides (Lam.) Kuntze legitimate

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 302 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Nelsonia brunelloides (Lam.) Kuntze legitimate

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]

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

Barker, R.M. (12 September 1986), A taxonomic revision of Australian Acanthaceae. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 9: 56-59 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "R. Brown s.n., 18.xi.1802, Sweer's (Island a) and Bentinck's (Island b) Islands, Gulf of Carpentaria (BM). Isolectotypes: (BM, MEL, K, NSW)."

taxonomic synonym: Nelsonia rotundifolia R.Br. legitimate pro parte misapplication: Nelsonia canescens (Lam.) Spreng. legitimate by Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (25 November 1847), Acanthaceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 11: 67 pro parte misapplication: Nelsonia canescens (Lam.) Spreng. legitimate by Bremekamp, C.E.B. (1955), Reinwardtia 3: 248 pro parte misapplication: Nelsonia brunelloides (Lam.) Kuntze legitimate by Durkee, L.H. (1978), Flora of Panama. Part IX. Family 177. Acanthaceae. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 65: 239

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 4 [secondary reference]

Barker, R.M. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Acanthaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 851, Fig. 263A [secondary reference]

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

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Acanthaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 165, Fig. 32 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Nelsonia rotundifolia R.Br. legitimate pro parte misapplication: Nelsonia canescens (Lam.) Spreng. legitimate by Bremekamp, C.E.B. (1955), Reinwardtia 3: 248 pro parte misapplication: Nelsonia brunelloides (Lam.) Kuntze legitimate by Durkee, L.H. (1978), Flora of Panama. Part IX. Family 177. Acanthaceae. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 65: 239 misapplication: Nelsonia tomentosa Willd. legitimate by Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xlvi.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Bean, A.R. in Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (ed.) (8 December 2010), Acanthaceae. Census of the Queensland Flora 2010: 6 [secondary reference]

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