Druce, G.C. (1917), Nomenclatorial Notes: chiefly African and Australian. The Botanical Exchange Club and Society of the British Isles Report for 1916, Suppl. 2: 625 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Iresine cunninghamii Moq. legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 233 [secondary reference]

George, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Amaranthaceae (except Ptilotus). Flora of Central Australia: 85 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Iresine cunninghamii Moq. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gomphrena maitlandii F.Muell. legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 72 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 5 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Amaranthaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 118, Fig. 29A [secondary reference]

Palmer, J. (31 March 1998), A taxonomic revision of Gomphrena (Amaranthaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 11(1): 117-118, Fig. 14 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Iresine cunninghamii Moq. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gomphrena maitlandii F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xeraea maitlandii (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Gomphrena maitlandi F.Muell. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Iresine cunninghamii Moq. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gomphrena maitlandii F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xeraea maitlandii (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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

Bean, A.R. in Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (ed.) (8 December 2010), Amaranthaceae. Census of the Queensland Flora 2010: 8 [secondary reference]

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