Hooker, J.D. in Hooker, W.J. (1847), Florae Tasmaniae Spicilegium: or, Contributions towards a Flora of Van Diemen's Land. London Journal of Botany 6: 466, bis [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Hab. Dry places:– v.v.n."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 13 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 435 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Opercularia eclyptoides F.Muell. ex Miq. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 82 [secondary reference]

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Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 355 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 271, Fig. 70 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 190 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Rubiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 325 [secondary reference]

James, T.A. & Allen, W.K. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Opercularia. Flora of New South Wales 3: 492 [secondary reference]

common name: Variable Stinkweed [n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Rubiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 632, 634, Fig. 123e [secondary reference]

common name: Variable Stinkweed [n/a]

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

common name: Variable Stinkweed [n/a]

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]

common name: Variable Stinkweed [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Opercularia varia Hook.f. var. varia legitimate taxonomic synonym: Opercularia varia var. scabrida Hook.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Opercularia varia var. filiformis Hook.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Opercularia varia var. hispidula Hook.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Opercularia stuartiana Miq. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Opercularia brachyphylla Miq. nom. inval., pro syn.

• APC Dist.: SA, NSW, Vic, Tas

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 73 [secondary reference]

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