Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 443 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown."

• Comment: nom. illeg., non Loefl. (1758).

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]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (1958), The geographical relationships of the flora of Arnhem Land. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 473 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Borreria suffruticosa Specht legitimate

Specht, R.L. (1962), The nomenclature of some Borreria species from Northern Australia. Kew Bulletin 16(2): 240 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Borreria suffruticosa Specht legitimate

Clarkson, J.R. (22 September 1993), Nomenclatural changes in Spermacoce L. (Rubiaceae). Austrobaileya 4(1): 117 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Spermacoce omissa J.R.Clarkson legitimate

Harwood, R. & Dessein, S. (20 May 2005), Australian Spermacoce (Rubiaceae: Spermacoceae). 1 Northern Territory. Australian Systematic Botany 18(4): 350 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Spermacoce omissa J.R.Clarkson legitimate

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