Fitzgerald, W.V. (1918), The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 3: 214-215 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Isdell River, near Grace's Knob (W.V.F.)."

• Etymology: "Named in nohour of Mt. W. Hepple Brown, who was an officer of the Kimberley Survey Expedition, 1905."

Carolin, R.C. (28 December 1979), The genus Calogyne R. Br. in Australia. Brunonia 2(1): 11-12, figs 1E-F, 2C (map) [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Isdell River near Grace's Knob, W.V. Fitzgerald (NSW); isotype fargment (K)."

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 156 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 38 [secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. (12 April 1990), Nomenclatural notes and new taxa in the genus Goodenia (Goodeniaceae). Telopea 3(4): 565 [basionym]

basionym of: Goodenia heppleana (W.Fitzg.) Carolin legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Goodeniaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 892 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Goodenia heppleana (W.Fitzg.) Carolin legitimate

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