Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 255 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N. Australia. Glenelg district, N.W. coast, Martin."

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

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 545 [basionym]

basionym of: Xeraea leptoclada (Benth.) Kuntze legitimate

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

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

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

nomenclatural synonym: Xeraea leptoclada (Benth.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT

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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