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• Type: "Ex insulis Praliniis. Commers. herb."

Sprengel, C.P.J. (1824), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 1: 650 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (1834), Labiatarum Genera et Species 4: 385 [secondary reference]

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Johnston, I.M. (1951), Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 32: 3-5 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cordia orientalis R.Br. 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: 286 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M. (1971), A key to the common rainforest trees between Townsville and Cooktown, based on leaf and bark features: 68, Code 438 [secondary reference]

common name: Sea Trumpet [n/a]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 255 [secondary reference]

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Hyland, B.P.M. (1982), A revised card key to rainforest trees of North Queensland: 68, 125, 138, Code 438 [secondary reference]

common name: Sea Trumpet [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 143 [secondary reference]

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common name: Ironwood [n/a] common name: Gerong gang [n/a]

Christophel, D.C. & Hyland, B.P.M. in Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993), Leaf Atlas of Australian Tropical Rain Forest Trees. Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system: 2, 28, 75, pl. 13(b), Code 438 [secondary reference]

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common name: Sea Trumpet [n/a]

Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993), Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system 2: 43, Code 438 [secondary reference]

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common name: Sea Trumpet [n/a]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Fruits of the Rainforest: 78-79, Fig. 144 [secondary reference]

common name: Sea Trumpet [n/a]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 302 [secondary reference]

Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 404: 22, 26 [secondary reference]

common name: Sea Trumpet [n/a]

• Vernacular: Geronggang

Pike, G.D. & Leach, G.J. (1997), Handbook of the vascular plants of Ashmore and Cartier Islands: 32-34 [secondary reference]

common name: Sea trumpet [n/a]

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common name: Sea Trumpet [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cordia orientalis R.Br. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, CoI, ChI, AR, NT, Qld, CSI

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [secondary reference]

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