Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 441 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Croker's Island, A. Cunningham; Port Essington, Armstrong."

• Comment: nom. illeg., non Roxb. (1820).

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

Schumann, K. in Engler, H.G.A. & Prantl, K.A.E. (ed.) (August 1891), Rubiaceae [continued]. Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien IV, 4(64): 144 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Borreria exserta K.Schum. legitimate

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

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 303 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Borreria exserta K.Schum. legitimate

Specht, R.L. (1962), The nomenclature of some Borreria species from Northern Australia. Kew Bulletin 16(2): 239 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Borreria exserta K.Schum. legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Spermacoce. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 926, Fig. 285E [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Borreria exserta K.Schum. legitimate

Govaerts, R.H.A. (1996), World Checklist of Seed Plants 2: 16 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Spermacoce islana Govaerts legitimate

Harwood, R. & Dessein, S. (20 May 2005), Australian Spermacoce (Rubiaceae: Spermacoceae). 1 Northern Territory. Australian Systematic Botany 18(4): 359 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "(here designated): Croker's Island, [NT], A. Cunningham; K."

Harwood, R. & Dessein, S. (20 May 2005), Australian Spermacoce (Rubiaceae: Spermacoceae). 1 Northern Territory. Australian Systematic Botany 18(4): 359 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Spermacoce stenophylla F.Muell. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Spermacoce stenophylla F.Muell. legitimate

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