Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1026 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in America meridionali."

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• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Nyctaginaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 96-97, Fig. 12F [secondary reference]

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common name: Native Bougainvillea [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Nyctaginaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 187 [secondary reference]

common name: Thorny Pisonia [n/a]

Koch, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Nyctaginaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 90, Fig. 20C [secondary reference]

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common name: Thorny Pisonia [n/a]

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common name: Native Bougainvillea [n/a] common name: Thorny Pisonia [n/a]

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