Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 130 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Americae calidionis maritimis."

Vriese, W.H. de in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1845), Convolvulaceae. Plantae Preissianae 1(3): 348 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (24 October 1854), Second general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the Colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 13 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(44): 116 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 393 [secondary reference]

Tate, R. (1880), A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns of Extra-Tropical South Australia. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 3: 77 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1881), Plants of North-Western Australia. Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council: 11 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 100 [secondary reference]

Anonymous (1883), Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council: 19 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 240 [secondary reference]

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

Fitzgerald, W.V. (1918), The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 3: 116 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 472 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 710 [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): 256 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 563 [secondary reference]

common name: Chinese Parsley [n/a] common name: Quail Plant [n/a] common name: Alkali Heliotrope [n/a] common name: Salt Heliotrope [n/a] common name: Smooth Heliotrope [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 90 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Boraginaceae (except Halgania). Flora of Central Australia: 290 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 143 [secondary reference]

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Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Boraginaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 548 [secondary reference]

common name: Smooth Heliotrope [n/a]

Craven, L.A. & Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Boraginaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 773 [secondary reference]

common name: Smooth Heliotrope [n/a]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Boraginaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 396 [secondary reference]

common name: Smooth Heliotrope [n/a]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 72 [secondary reference]

common name: Smooth Heliotroepe [n/a]

Craven, L.A. (13 September 1996), A taxonomic revision of Heliotropium (Boraginaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 9(4): 634-635, Fig. 83 (map) APC [secondary reference]

• Type: not designated. C.E.Jarvis (in litt.) advises that he is aware of the following syntypes: herb. Clifford 45, Heliotropium 3 (BM, n.v.); Plukenet, Phytographia 1: t.36.f.3 (1691) (n.v.), Almagestum 182 (1696) (n.v.); Sloane, Voy. Jamaica 1: 213, t. 132, f. 3 (1707) (n.v.), Morison, Pl. hist. univ. 3: 452, f. 11, t. 31, f. 12 (1699) (n.v.); Hermann, Parad. bat. 183, t. 183 (1698) (n.v.).

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Boraginaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 390, 392, Fig. 76d [secondary reference]

common name: Smooth Heliotrope [n/a]

Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4: 222 [secondary reference]

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