Carolin, R.C. (23 December 1980), New species and new combinations in Goodeniaceae and Campanulaceae. Telopea 2(1): 73 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Mt. Unapproachable, South Australia, H. Basedow 134, 1.7.1926 (K). (Not the sheet marked `SHT.2 ...')."

Carolin, R.C. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Goodeniaceae, Brunoniaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 359 [secondary reference]

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

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 39 [secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1992), Scaevola. Flora of Australia 35: 139, Map 179 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA

Moore, P. (2005), A guide to plants of inland Australia: 201 (photo, map), 203 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: Named after anthropologist Herbert Basedow, collector of the type.

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