Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 932 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Aethiopia."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names. Key to the System of Victorian Plants 1: 534 [secondary reference]

Albrecht, D.E. & Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Campanulaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 577, Fig. 110i [secondary reference]

common name: Bedding Lobelia [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Lobelia erinus var. gracilis L.H.Bailey legitimate

• APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 28 [secondary reference]

Baker, M.L., Wapstra, M. & Lawrence, D. (20 August 2019), An annotated census of the lesser-known naturalised plants of Tasmania. Muelleria 38: 38 [secondary reference]

common name: bedding lobelia [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Lobelia erinus var. gracilis L.H.Bailey legitimate

• APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (doubtfully naturalised)

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