Hooker, J.D. (1847), Addenda et Corrigenda. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror. I. Flora Antarctica 2(25): 543-552 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "collected on Middlesex Plains, Tasmania, by R.C. Gunn, Esq. ... t.16B" [given by W.R.B.Oliver, Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Bull. 132 (1935) 33 as "Australia, Tasmania. Middlesex Plains and Middlesex River, February 1837, Gunn no. 304/1839, Kew Herb., type;"].

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

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 82 [secondary reference]

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

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 69 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Coprosma repens Hook.f. nom. illeg.

Oliver, W.R.B. (1935), Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 132: 33-34 [secondary reference]

Oliver, W.R.B. (1935), The Genus Coprosma. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 132: 33-37 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Coprosma repens Hook.f. nom. illeg.

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 269 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Coprosma repens Hook.f. nom. illeg.

Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2: 612 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Coprosma repens Hook.f. nom. illeg. common name: Creeping Coprosma [n/a]

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

Orchard, A.E. (16 March 1987), A revision of the Coprosma pumila (Rubiaceae) complex in Australia, New Zealand and the subantarctic islands. Brunonia 9(2): 122-125 [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Coprosma repens Hook.f. nom. illeg. by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 69

Orchard, A.E. (16 March 1987), A revision of the Coprosma pumila (Rubiaceae) complex in Australia, New Zealand and the subantarctic islands. Brunonia 9(2): 133 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Coprosma perpusilla subsp. subantarctica Orchard legitimate

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Orchard, A.E. (1993), Rubiaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 402 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Coprosma perpusilla subsp. subantarctica Orchard legitimate by Oliver, W.R.B. (1935), Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 132: 33-34

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Rubiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 636-637 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Vic, Tas

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

misapplied to: Coprosma perpusilla Colenso subsp. perpusilla legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2: 612

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Coprosma perpusilla Colenso subsp. perpusilla legitimate

Thompson, I.R. (4 January 2010), A new species of Leptostigma (Rubiaceae: Coprosminae) and notes on the Coprosminae in Australia. Muelleria 28(1): 36, Fig. 5 [secondary reference]

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

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