Bentham, G. (1844), The Botany of the Voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur: 53, t. 26 [comb. nov.]

• Type: "It was found by Douglas on the north-west coast, as far as the Columbia river"

basionym: Croton setiger Hook. legitimate

• Comment: Cited in Index Nominum Genericorum 1 (1979) 632 as Eremocarpus setigerus (Hook.) Benth. with the basionym as possibly Croton setigerum Hook., however this is unclear from the protologue.

Black, J.M. (1921), Additions to the Flora of South Australia. No. 19. Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 45: 14 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 353 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1925), List of the naturalised plants of extra-tropical Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 11(8): 77 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 514 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 116 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 107 [secondary reference]

James, T.A. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 420-421 [secondary reference]

common name: Dove Weed [n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 64, Fig. 10b [secondary reference]

common name: Dove Weed [n/a]

James, T.A. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 420-421 [secondary reference]

common name: Dove Weed [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Eremocarpus setigerus Benth. orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Croton setiger Hook. legitimate

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