Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 102 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 44 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1863), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 4(25): 41 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 438-439 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Borreria G.Mey. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Bigelovia Spreng. nom. rej.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 76 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 253 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 3: 256 [secondary reference]

• Type: Spermacoce tenuior L.

Marsden, C.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Rubiaceae (except Gardenia). Flora of Central Australia: 282 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Rubiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 327 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 62, 67, 421 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Tardavel Adans. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Borreria G.Mey. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Bigelovia Spreng. nom. rej.

James, T.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Spermacoce. Flora of New South Wales 3: 493 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Spermacoce. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 923-925 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Orchard, A.E. (1993), Rubiaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 401 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 452 [secondary reference]

Harwood, R. & Dessein, S. (20 May 2005), Australian Spermacoce (Rubiaceae: Spermacoceae). 1 Northern Territory. Australian Systematic Botany 18(4): 320 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Tardavel Adans. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Borreria G.Mey. nom. cons.

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 811 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Tardavel Adans. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Borreria G.Mey. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Bigelovia Spreng. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Bigelowia Benth. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, CoI (naturalised), ChI (native and naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Borreria G.Mey. nom. cons.

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