Johnston, I.M. (1935), Studies in the Boraginaceae, XI. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 16(2): 164 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Tournefortia argentea L.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Tournefortia arborea Blanco legitimate

• Text: "In the Pacific Ocean it ranges from... tropical Australia... In the Indian Ocean it extends from northwestern Australia... Christmas and Cocos Keeling Islands..."

Johnston, I.M. (1951), Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 32: 121-122 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Tournefortia argentea L.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Tournefortia arborea Blanco legitimate

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: 288 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Tournefortia argentea L.f. legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 256 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 144 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Boraginaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 357 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Argusia argentea (L.f.) Heine legitimate

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 14 [secondary reference]

Barker, R.M. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Boraginaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 359 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Argusia argentea (L.f.) Heine legitimate

Pike, G.D. & Leach, G.J. (1997), Handbook of the vascular plants of Ashmore and Cartier Islands: 28 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Argusia argentea (L.f.) Heine legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Heliotropium foertherianum Diane & Hilger legitimate

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Argusia argentea (L.f.) Heine legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2019), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Messersmidia argentea Specht orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2019), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Argusia argentea (L.f.) Heine legitimate

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