Boissier, P.E. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1862), Euphorbiaceae subordo Euphorbieae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 15(2): 25 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ad Port Curtis Australiae (Mitchell No. 231!, MacGillivray n. 83 et 63 in herb. Kew!)"

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 18 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 31 [secondary reference]

Tate, R. (July 1895), A supplement to a census of the flora of extra-tropical South Australia. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 19: 80 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 470 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1927), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 860 [secondary reference]

Bateman, W. & Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Some ecological and systematic notes on the vegetation near Mt. Marumba in the centre of Arnhem Land. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 330 [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: 251 [secondary reference]

Hassall, D.C. (1976), Numerical and cytotaxonomic evidence for generic delimitation in Australian Euphorbieae. Australian Journal of Botany 24(5): 640 [basionym]

basionym of: Chamaesyce mitchelliana (Boiss.) D.C.Hassall legitimate

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

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 30 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1987), Native Plants of Queensland 3: 126 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 605-607 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Chamaesyce mitchelliana (Boiss.) D.C.Hassall legitimate

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 102 [secondary reference]

Barker, W.R., Barker, R.M., Jessop, J. & Vonow, H. (ed.) (18 March 2005), Census of South Australian Vascular Plants 5th Edition. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens Supplement 1: 98 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Chamaesyce mitchelliana (Boiss.) D.C.Hassall legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym: Chamaesyce mitchelliana (Boiss.) D.C.Hassall var. mitchelliana legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Chamaesyce mitchelliana (Boiss.) D.C.Hassall legitimate taxonomic synonym: Euphorbia mitchelliana var. oblongifolia Boiss. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Euphorbia mitchelliana var. hirta Boiss. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Euphorbia pubicaulis S.Moore legitimate taxonomic synonym: Euphorbia mitchelliana var. filifolia Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Euphorbia mitchelliana var. dietrichiae Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Euphorbia mitchelliana var. cairnsiana Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Euphorbia mitchelliana var. obtusifolia Domin orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Euphorbia mitchelliana var. typica Domin nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Chamaesyce mitchelliana var. hirta (Boiss.) D.C.Hassall legitimate

• APC Comment: Treated as Chamaesyce mitchelliana in Qld.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Halford, D.A. & Harris, W.K. (21 December 2012), A taxonomic revision of Euphorbia section Anisophyllum Roeper (Euphorbiaceae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 8(4): 518-519 APC [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "[Queensland. Port Curtis District:] Port Curtis [Gladstone area], November 1847, J.MacGillivray 83 (lecto [here designated]: K 186478, element on left; isolecto: K 186479)."

nomenclatural synonym: Chamaesyce mitchelliana (Boiss.) D.C.Hassall legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

---