Moore, S. le M. (7 December 1920), A contribution to the Flora of Australia. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 45: 216 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Cape York; Daemel."

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1: 26 [secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2: 27 [secondary reference]

Hunter, J.T. & Bruhl, J.J. (10 March 1997), Three new species of Phyllanthus (Euphorbiaceae: Phyllantheae) for the Northern Territory, one new species for Western Australia, and notes on other Phyllanthus species occurring in these regions. Nuytsia 11(2): 158 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Phyllanthus virgatus G.Forst. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Phyllanthus virgatus G.Forst. legitimate

Verwijs, J.I.M., Bouman, R.W. & van Welzen, P.C. (25 October 2019), A taxonomic revision of Phyllanthus subgenus Macraea (Phyllanthaceae). Blumea 64: 248 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Phyllanthus virgatus G.Forst. legitimate

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