Airy Shaw, H.K. (1978), Notes on Malesian and other Asiatic Euphorbiaceae: CCVII - CCXXI. Kew Bulletin 33(1): 56 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "West New Guinea, Kostermans & Soegeng 275 (holotypus K)."

Airy Shaw, H.K. (November 1980), A partial synopsis of the Euphorbiaceae - Platylobeae of Australia (excluding Phyllanthus, Euphorbia and Calycopeplus). Kew Bulletin 35(3): 621 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 107 [secondary reference]

Radcliffe-Smith, A. & Govaerts, R.H.A. (1997), New Names and Combinations in the Crotonoïdeae. Kew Bulletin 52(1): 186 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Croton coccymelophyllus Radcl.-Sm. & Govaerts legitimate

Forster, P.I. (3 December 2003), A taxonomic revision of Croton L. (Euphorbiaceae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 6(3): 428 [secondary reference]

• Text: "The name Croton prunifolius was misapplied by Airy Shaw (1981) to a sterile collection of C. habrophyllus from Western Australia. ..."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Croton habrophyllus Airy Shaw legitimate by Airy Shaw, H.K. (November 1980), A partial synopsis of the Euphorbiaceae - Platylobeae of Australia (excluding Phyllanthus, Euphorbia and Calycopeplus). Kew Bulletin 35(3): 621

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