Hooker, J.D. in Hooker, W.J. (1847), Florae Tasmaniae Spicilegium: or, Contributions towards a Flora of Van Diemen's Land. London Journal of Botany 6: 465, bis [tax. nov.]

nomenclatural synonym: Marquisia billardierei A.Rich. ex DC. nom. illeg.

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 430 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Canthium quadrifidum Labill. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Marquisia billardierei A.Rich. ex DC. nom. illeg.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 75 [secondary reference]

Tate, R. (July 1895), A supplement to a census of the flora of extra-tropical South Australia. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 19: 81 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 69 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 171 [secondary reference]

Ewart, A.J. (1925), Handbook of Forest Trees for Victorian Foresters: 429-430, Pl. CCXX [secondary reference]

common name: Prickly Coprosma [n/a]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 535 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Coprosma quadrifida (Labill.) B.L.Rob. legitimate

Domin, K. (1929), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 1180 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Coprosma quadrifida (Labill.) B.L.Rob. legitimate

Oliver, W.R.B. (1935), The Genus Coprosma. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 132: 85 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 796 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Coprosma quadrifida (Labill.) B.L.Rob. legitimate

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 268 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Coprosma quadrifida (Labill.) B.L.Rob. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 189 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Coprosma quadrifida (Labill.) B.L.Rob. legitimate

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Rubiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 638 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Coprosma quadrifida (Labill.) B.L.Rob. legitimate

Thompson, I.R. (4 January 2010), A new species of Leptostigma (Rubiaceae: Coprosminae) and notes on the Coprosminae in Australia. Muelleria 28(1): 37 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Coprosma quadrifida (Labill.) B.L.Rob. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Coprosma billardieri Hook.f. orth. var.

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 72 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Coprosma quadrifida (Labill.) B.L.Rob. legitimate

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