Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 297 [tax. nov.]

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

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 49 [secondary reference]

Koehne, B.A.E. (18 August 1882), Lythraceae monographice describuntur. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 3: 326 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Nesaea lanceolata var. pubiflora Koehne legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 214, Fig. 186 [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: 262 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 250 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. (15 October 1976), A summary of the family Lythraceae in the Northern Territory (with additional comments on Australian material). Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 1(1): 57 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 45 [secondary reference]

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Appendix: Lythraceae. Flora of Australia 18: 321 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Ammannia pubiflora (Koehne) Hewson nom. illeg.

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Lythrum. Flora of Australia 18: 100 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Ammannia pubiflora (Koehne) Hewson nom. illeg.

Bean, A.R. (18 December 2008), Reinstatement of Ammannia triflora Benth. (Lythraceae). Austrobaileya 7(4): 727 APC [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "[Queensland] Sweers Island, 27 November 1802, R. Brown (lecto: BM [here designated]; isolecto: BRI; NSW)."

nomenclatural synonym: Nesaea lanceolata var. pubiflora Koehne legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Ammannia pubiflora (Koehne) Hewson nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Ammannia triflora Wall. nom. inval., nom. nud.

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld

• Text: "Ammannia triflora Wall. ... is a nomen nudum, and hence not a legitimately published new species... Therefore Ammannia triflora Benth. is a legitimate name, and is the oldest available name for the species that Hewson called A. pubiflora. Ironically, A. pubiflora (Koehne) Hewson is an illegitimate name..."

Graham, S.A.T. & Gandhi, K. (2013), Nomenclatural changes resulting from the transfer of Nesaea and Hionanthera to Ammannia (Lythraceae). Harvard Papers in Botany 18(1): 84 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Nesaea lanceolata var. pubiflora Koehne legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Ammannia pubiflora (Koehne) Hewson nom. illeg.

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