Mueller, F.J.H. von (1863), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 4(25): 43 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In insula Sweer's Island sinus Carpentaria Gulph. Henne."

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 442 [secondary reference]

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

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 253, Fig. 228 [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: 305 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Borreria carpentariae Specht 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 carpentariae Specht legitimate

Harwood, R. & Dessein, S. (20 May 2005), Australian Spermacoce (Rubiaceae: Spermacoceae). 1 Northern Territory. Australian Systematic Botany 18(4): 359-360, Figs 1B, 32 APC [secondary reference]

• Type: Sweers Island, Henne; holo: MEL104328; iso: K.

nomenclatural synonym: Borreria carpentariae Specht legitimate taxonomic synonym: Spermacoce exserta Benth. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Borreria exserta K.Schum. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Spermacoce islana Govaerts legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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

taxonomic synonym: Spermacoce exserta Benth. nom. illeg.

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