Sprengel, C.P.J. (1824), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 1: 824 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Philoxerus diffusus R.Br. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 28 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 404 [secondary reference]

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. 29B [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 56 [secondary reference]

• Vernacular: ngalil

Palmer, J. (31 March 1998), A taxonomic revision of Gomphrena (Amaranthaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 11(1): 111-112 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Philoxerus diffusus R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Xeraea diffusa (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Iresine brownii Moq. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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

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