Vahl, M.(H.) (1794), Symbolae Botanicae 3: 13, t. 53 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in India orientali KÖNIG"

Munir, A.A. (23 December 1982), A taxonomic revision of the genus Callicarpa L. (Verbenaceae) in Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 6(1): 24-27. Fig. 5, Map 4 [secondary reference]

• Text: "The first and only Australian record of C. macrophylla is made here from south-east of Brisbane in Queensland... In the case of the single specimen from Queensland it could not be ascertained whether the plant occurs there naturally or whether the material was obtained from a cultivated tree."

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Verbenaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 373 [secondary reference]

• Text: "Munir in Journal Adelaide Bot. Gard. 6(1): 25 (1982) reports Callicarpa macrophylla Vahl from the Bremer River. It seems likely that this is based on a specimen which is from a cultivated plant."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Comment: An Asian taxon. The single Australian specimen under this name (S.H.Eaves s.n., MEL 97743) has been redetermined as Callicarpa longifolia Lam.

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