Gaertner, J. (December 1788), De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum 1: 113, t. 24, fig. 5 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "E collect. sem. hort. lugdb."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3: 3 [secondary reference]

Blake, S.T. (1954), Botanical contributions of the Northern Australia Regional Survey. II. Studies on miscellaneous northern Australian plants. Australian Journal of Botany 2(1): 137 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 234 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 76 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Sphenocleaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 171-172, Pl. 35, Fig. 34 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Sphenoclea zeilanica F.Muell. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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