Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 99 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "W. Australia, Drummond, 3rd Coll. n. 153. Perongerup and Plantagenet and Stirling Ranges, Maxwell."

pro parte misapplication: Molkenboeria semiamplexicaulis (DC.) de Vriese legitimate by Vriese, W.H. de (1854), Goodenovieae. Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem ser. 2, 10: 41

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 88 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 378 [basionym]

basionym of: Lobelia auriculata (Benth.) Kuntze legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 159 [secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. (12 April 1990), Nomenclatural notes, new taxa and the systematic arrangement in the genus Scaevola (Goodeniaceae) including synonyms. Telopea 3(4): 506 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "K. ISOLECTOTYPES: BM,MEL. There are two sheets at K bearing collections with this number, one bears a specimen of no 153, the other bears a specimen of no. 157 as well. The lectotype is the sheet bearing the single collection."

Carolin, R.C. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1992), Scaevola. Flora of Australia 35: 132-133, Map 167 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Lobelia auriculata (Benth.) Kuntze legitimate pro parte misapplication: Molkenboeria semiamplexicaulis (DC.) de Vriese legitimate by Vriese, W.H. de (1854), Goodenovieae. Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem ser. 2, 10: 41

• APC Dist.: WA

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