Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 398 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Cape York, Daemel"

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 346 [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: 286 [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): 255 [secondary reference]

Craven, L.A. (13 September 1996), A taxonomic revision of Heliotropium (Boraginaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 9(4): 632 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Heliotropium rhadinostachyum Craven legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Euploca rhadinostachya (Craven) M.W.Frohl. & M.W.Chase legitimate

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