Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 270 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Endlicher, S.F.L. (December 1836), Genera Plantarum Secundum Ordines Naturales Disposita 2: 125 [basionym]

basionym of: Commelina b. Aneilema (R.Br.) Endl. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 122 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 278 [secondary reference]

Brückner, G. (1926), Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 61: 1-70 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Aneilema biflorum R.Br.

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 429 [secondary reference]

Morton, J.K. (1966), A revision of the genus Aneilema R. Brown (Commelinaceae) with a cytotaxonomic account of the West African species. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 59: 431-478 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1114 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 9 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Commelinaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 77 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Commelinaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 260 [secondary reference]

Faden, R.B. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Commelinaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 126, Fig. 34 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 130 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 45 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Anilema Kunth orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Commelina b. Aneilema (R.Br.) Endl. legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld, NSW

Lee, C.-K., Fuse, S., Poopath, M., Pooma, R. & Tamura, M.N. (2022), Phylogenetics and infrafamilial classification of Commelinaceae (Commelinales). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 198: 125-126 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Pollia Thunb. legitimate

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