Wallich, N. (1831), A Numerical List of Dried Specimens of Plants in the East India Companies Museum: [no. 5212] [comb. nov.]

basionym: Commelina vaginatum L. legitimate

• Comment: Index Kewensis gives R.Brown in Prodr. (1810) 271 however the combination is not validly made therein.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1891), Record of hitherto undescribed plants from Arnheim's Land. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 24: 77 [secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 212 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Aneilema vaginata Wall. orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Murdannia vaginata (L.) G.Brückn. legitimate

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