Hooker, J.D. (1844), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror. I. Flora Antarctica 1(2): 22, t. 16 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Lord Auckland's and Campbell's Island; common from the sea to the tops of the hills."

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

taxonomic synonym: Coprosma pumila Hook.f. legitimate

Oliver, W.R.B. (1935), The Genus Coprosma. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 132: 33 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Coprosma pumila Hook.f. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Coprosma pumila Hook.f. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Coprosma pumila Hook.f. legitimate

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 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "J.D.H. 1595, Common Campbells Island, K!"

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 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Coprosma perpusilla subsp. subantarctica Orchard legitimate

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): 123 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Coprosma pumila Hook.f. legitimate by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 69

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

taxonomic synonym of: Coprosma perpusilla subsp. subantarctica Orchard 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 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Coprosma perpusilla subsp. subantarctica Orchard legitimate

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