Fitzgerald, W.V. (1918), The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 3: 160 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Base of Mt. Broome (W.V.F.)."

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 107 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 603-605, Fig. 183C, 184F, 185F, 186F [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Chamaesyce distans J.R.Wheeler nom. inval., pro syn.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Euphorbia armstrongiana Boiss. legitimate

Halford, D.A. & Harris, W.K. (21 December 2012), A taxonomic revision of Euphorbia section Anisophyllum Roeper (Euphorbiaceae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 8(4): 463 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Western Austrlaia. Mount Broome, May 1905, W.V.Fitzgerald 818 (lecto [here designated]: PERTH 2847248; isolecto: NSW 98807).

Halford, D.A. & Harris, W.K. (21 December 2012), A taxonomic revision of Euphorbia section Anisophyllum Roeper (Euphorbiaceae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 8(4): 463 [basionym]

basionym of: Euphorbia armstrongiana var. distans (W.Fitzg.) Halford & W.K.Harris legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Euphorbia armstrongiana Boiss. legitimate

Parker, C.M. & Biggs, L.J. (1 May 2014), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2013. Nuytsia 24: 56 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Euphorbia armstrongiana var. distans (W.Fitzg.) Halford & W.K.Harris legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Euphorbia armstrongiana var. distans (W.Fitzg.) Halford & W.K.Harris legitimate

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