Brown, R. in Tuckey, J.H. (1818), Appendix No. V: Observations, systematical and geographical, on Professor Christian Smith's collection of plants from the vicinity of the River Congo. Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816: 477 [primary reference]

• Type: (not designated).

Moquin-Tandon, C.H.B.A. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1849), Amarantaceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 13(2): 370 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym of: Alternanthera Forssk. legitimate

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