Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 277 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 17 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 30 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 67 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1927), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 936 [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): 246 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 112 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 78 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Tiliaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 164, Fig. 44G [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 060 [secondary reference]

Halford, D.A. (6 December 2004), Notes on Tiliaceae in Australia, 4. A revision of the stellate-haired species of the genus Corchorus L. Austrobaileya 6(4): 609-611, Map 2 APC [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: [Northern Territory.] Carpentaria island r[Burney Island] No 32 desc., [19 Jan 1803,] R. Brown (lecto, here chosen: K: ?isolecto: BRI, CANB, MEL, NSW).

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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