Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 187 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europa australi."

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xlv [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 394 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Heliotropium glandulosum R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heliotropium lacunarium F.Muell. legitimate

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 (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 100 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (13 May 1889), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 4: 7 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 240 [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: 473, Fig. 195 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 711, Fig. 1009 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 306 [secondary reference]

common name: Common Heliotrope [n/a] common name: Caterpillar Weed [n/a]

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

common name: European Heliotrope [n/a] common name: Wandary Curse [n/a] common name: Potato Weed [n/a] common name: Wild Heliotrope [n/a] common name: Heliotrope [n/a] common name: Caterpillar Weed [n/a] common name: Common 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: 290-291 [secondary reference]

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

Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 138 [secondary reference]

common name: Common heliotrope [n/a]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Boraginaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 360 [secondary reference]

common name: A Heliotrope [n/a]

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: 549 [secondary reference]

common name: Common Heliotrope [n/a]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Boraginaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 397 [secondary reference]

common name: Potato Weed [n/a] common name: Common Heliotrope [n/a]

Craven, L.A. (13 September 1996), A taxonomic revision of Heliotropium (Boraginaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 9(4): 550-552, Fig. 9 (map) APC [secondary reference]

• Type: Typus: not designated. C.E.Jarvis (in litt.) notes the following syntypes: herb. Linne 179.5 (LINN, n.v.); herb. Clifford 45, Heliotropium 1 (BM, n.v.); herb. Burser vol. XIV (UPS, n.v.).

taxonomic synonym: Heliotropium glandulosum R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heliotropium lacunarium F.Muell. legitimate

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

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

common name: Common Heliotrope [n/a]

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [secondary reference]

Bean, A.R. (26 February 2007), A new system for determining which plant species are indigenous in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 20(1): 21, Fig. 17 (map) [secondary reference]

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