Thunberg, C.P. (1781), Nova Genera Plantarum 1: 11 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Pollia japonica Thunb.

• Text: "Nomen in honorem Patroni Summi, Domini J. van der Poll, Consulis Amsteldamensium meritissimi."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1865), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 5(32): 40 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 122 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 9 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Commelinaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 77 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 15 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Aclisia E.Mey. legitimate

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Commelinaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 259 [secondary reference]

Faden, R.B. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Commelinaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 125-126 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 131 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 687 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Aclisia E.Mey. legitimate

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

Barrett, R.L. (2017), (54) Request for a binding decision on whether Pollia Thunb. (Commelinaceae) and Polia Lour. (Caryophyllaceae) are sufficiently alike to be confused. Taxon 66(1): 215 [secondary reference]

Lee, C.-K., Fuse, S., Poopath, M., Pooma, R. & Tamura, M.N. (2022), Phylogenetics and infrafamilial classification of Commelinaceae (Commelinales). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 198: 125-126 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Aneilema R.Br. legitimate

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