Mueller, F.J.H. von (1865), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 5(34): 64 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Per magnam Australiae tropicae partem diffusa."

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 538 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 83 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 365 [basionym]

basionym of: Seruneum spilanthoides (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

Britten, J. (1901), Some proposed changes in nomenclature. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 39: 69 [basionym]

basionym of: Niebuhria spilanthoides (F.Muell.) Britten legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 181 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 271 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1930), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 1234 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Niebuhria spilanthoides (F.Muell.) Britten legitimate

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 325 [secondary reference]

Koster, J.T. (1979), The Compositae of New Guinea VI. Blumea 25(1/2): 270-271 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 88 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 557, Fig. 78C [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1987), Native Plants of Queensland 3: 316 [secondary reference]

Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Wedelia. Flora of New South Wales 3: 274 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

Orchard, A.E. (25 July 2013), The Wollastonia/Melanthera/Wedelia generic complex (Asteraceae: Ecliptinae), with particular reference to Australia and Malesia. Nuytsia 23: 408 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: chosen here: Warwick, s. dat., [Anon. s.n., herb. Mueller], MEL 2166644!).

Orchard, A.E. (25 July 2013), The Wollastonia/Melanthera/Wedelia generic complex (Asteraceae: Ecliptinae), with particular reference to Australia and Malesia. Nuytsia 23: 412 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Apowollastonia major Orchard legitimate by Koster, J.T. (1979), The Compositae of New Guinea VI. Blumea 25(1/2): 270-271

Orchard, A.E. (25 July 2013), The Wollastonia/Melanthera/Wedelia generic complex (Asteraceae: Ecliptinae), with particular reference to Australia and Malesia. Nuytsia 23: 408 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Apowollastonia spilanthoides (F.Muell.) Orchard legitimate

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (3 October 2014), Appendix A. Name and status changes 2013 census to 2014 census. Census of the Queensland Flora: 19 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Apowollastonia spilanthoides (F.Muell.) Orchard legitimate

Orchard, A.E. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Apowollastonia. Flora of Australia 37: 525 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Apowollastonia spilanthoides (F.Muell.) Orchard legitimate

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