Manso, A.L.P. da Silva (1836), Enumeracao das Substancias Brazileiras: 16, 49 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Prain, D. in King, G. & Gamble, J.S. (1905), Convolvulaceae, in Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. No. 18. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Part 2. Natural history 74(2): 308 [secondary reference]

Ooststroom, S.J. van (March 1953), Convolvulaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(4): 454-457 [secondary reference]

Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. in Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. (ed.) (1979), Index Nominum Genericorum 3: 1816 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Turpethum Raf. nom. rej.

Johnson, R.W. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Convolvulaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 287 [secondary reference]

Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M., Chaloner, W.G., Demoulin, V., Grolle, R., Hawksworth, D.L., Nicolson, D.H., Silva, P.C., Stafleu, F.A., Voss, E.G. & McNeill, J. (ed.) (1988), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Berlin, 1988. Regnum Vegetabile 118: 257 [secondary reference]

• Type: Operculina turpethum (L.) A.Silva Manso

Wheeler, J.R. & Marchant, N.G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Convolvulaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 746 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 138 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Turpethum Raf. nom. rej.

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT, Qld

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 603 [secondary reference]

Simões, A.R. & Staples, G.W. (2017), Dissolution of Convolvulaceae tribe Merremieae and a new classification of the constituent genera. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 183: 580, Figs 13, 14 (map) [secondary reference]

Staples, G.W., Simões, A.R. & Austin, D.F. (1 May 2020), A monograph of Operculina (Concolvulaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 105: 81-82 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Turpethum Raf. nom. rej.

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