Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1846), Borragineae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 10: 28 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Lycopsis lutea Desr. legitimate

Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2: 537 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Boraginaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 407-408, Fig. 79a [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Lycopsis lutea Desr. legitimate common name: Yellow Alkanet [n/a]

• APC Dist.: Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 25 [secondary reference]

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (14 August 2020), Appendix 1: Changes in the Census between the 2019 and 2020 editions: 1D: taxa now not considered to be part of the Tasmanian flora. A Census of the vascular plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 141 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Lycopsis lutea Desr. legitimate

• APC Dist.: Vic (naturalised)

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