Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 396 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Sturt's Creek, F. Mueller"

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

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

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

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 14 [secondary reference]

Craven, L.A. & Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Boraginaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 774 [secondary reference]

Craven, L.A. (13 September 1996), A taxonomic revision of Heliotropium (Boraginaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 9(4): 572-573, Fig. 29 (map) [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT

Frohlich, M.W., Thulin, M. & Chase, M.W. (24 February 2020), Ninety-three new combinations in Euploca for species of Heliotropium section Orthostachys (Boraginaceae sensu APG). Phytotaxa 434(1): 16 [basionym]

basionym of: Euploca epacridea (F.Muell. ex Benth.) M.W.Frohl. & M.W.Chase legitimate

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (21 March 2023), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2022. Nuytsia 34: 11 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Euploca epacridea (F.Muell. ex Benth.) M.W.Frohl. & M.W.Chase legitimate

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