Mueller, F.J.H. von (1859), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 1(6): 149 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ad ripas glareoso-arenosas prope originem fluminis Victoriae et rivi Roper River."

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 13, 14 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 86 [basionym]

basionym of: Candollea floodii (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 277, Fig. 245 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 263 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2: 272 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 161 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 77 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Stylidiaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 879, Fig. 271C [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F. & Lowrie, A. (14 June 1994), Stylidium costulatum (Stylidiaceae), a new tropical species of triggerplant from the Kimberley, Western Australia and the lectotypification of S. floodii. Nuytsia 9(3): 347, Figs 4, 5 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: F. Mueller (MEL 233150). Isolectotype: F. Mueller. "Stylidium Floodii f.v.Mueller. Roper River". Herbarium Hookerianum 1867 (K)

Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4: 362 [secondary reference]

Bean, A.R. (29 December 1999), A revision of Stylidium sect. Debilia Mildbr., S. sect. Floodia Mildbr. and S. sect Lanata A.R.Bean (Stylidiaceae). Austrobaileya 5(3): 433-434, Map 1 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Candollea floodii (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - [secondary reference]

Parker, C.M. (10 March 2015), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2014. Nuytsia 25: 22 [secondary reference]

Wege, J.A., Brennan, K.G., Bean, A.R., Barrett, R.L., Dillon, S.J. & Barrett, M.D. (25 October 2024), Stylidium miscellany IV: novel species, recircumscriptions and range extensions for northern Australia. Nuytsia 35: 165-166, Fig. 11 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Type citation: ‘Ad ripas glareoso-arenosas prope originem fluminis Victoriae et rivi Roper River.’ Type specimens: Dry lagoons on the Roper River, Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Territory, 8 July 1856, F. Mueller s.n. (lecto, designated by K.F. Kenneally & A. Lowrie, Nuytsia 9(3): 347 (1994): MEL 233150!; isolecto: GH 00033487 image!, K 000741765!, MEL 233151A! [individual on left hand side], MEL 233152B! [individual on upper portion of sheet, and individuals on the lower left and third from the left]); Depot Creek [Victoria River], Northern Territory, March 1856, F. Mueller s.n. (syn: MEL 233151B! [individual on right hand side], MEL 233152A! [individuals on lower portion of sheet and second from the left and on right hand side]), = S. adenophorum Lowrie & Kenneally."

nomenclatural synonym: Candollea floodii (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stylidium symonii Carlquist legitimate

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