Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 98 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Queensland. Near Brisbane, but very local, C. Prentice (female specimen). N.S. Wales. Lachlan river, L. Moreton (male specimen)."

• Comment: nom. illeg., non Muell.Arg. (1863).

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 19 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3: 4 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (May 1888), Supplement to the enumeration of Victorian plants, comprising the species added since Part II. of the key to the system of our native vegetation was published, with addition of a few species inadvertently before omitted. The Victorian Naturalist 5(1): 14 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 34 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 62 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 474 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 350 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 510 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 210 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Glochidion thesioides H.Eichler legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 245 [secondary reference]

Airy Shaw, H.K. (November 1980), A partial synopsis of the Euphorbiaceae - Platylobeae of Australia (excluding Phyllanthus, Euphorbia and Calycopeplus). Kew Bulletin 35(3): 684 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Sauropus thesioides (H.Eichler) Airy Shaw legitimate

Airy Shaw, H.K. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Synostemon, Petalostigma. Flora of Central Australia: 192 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Synostemon thesioides Airy Shaw nom. inval.

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 462 [secondary reference]

common name: Sticky Spurge [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 117 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 428, 430, Figs 67A & 67N [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 31 [secondary reference]

Hunter, J.T. & Bruhl, J.J. (8 July 1997), Two new species of Phyllanthus and notes on Phyllanthus and Sauropus (Euphorbiaceae: Phyllantheae) in New South Wales. Telopea 7(2): 164 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Sauropus hirtellus (F.Muell.) Airy Shaw legitimate

Jessup, L.W. (2003), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 1 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Sauropus hirtellus (F.Muell.) Airy Shaw legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Phyllanthus thesoides F.Muell. orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Sauropus ramosissimus (F.Muell.) Airy Shaw legitimate by Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 510

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

taxonomic synonym of: Sauropus hirtellus (F.Muell.) Airy Shaw legitimate

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