Barker, R.M. (12 September 1986), A taxonomic revision of Australian Acanthaceae. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 9: 216 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "McKean B602, 8.vi.1972, 3 miles NW Adelaide River Township (CANB); isotypes: (DNA, NT)."

Barker, R.M. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Acanthaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 851 [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 52 [secondary reference]

common name: Musk-scented Plant [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hypoestes moschata F.Muell. & Holtze legitimate pro parte taxonomic synonym: Hypoestes laxiflora var. β Nees legitimate pro parte taxonomic synonym: Hypoestes floribunda 1. densiflora Benth. legitimate pro parte taxonomic synonym: Hypoestes floribunda 2. paniculata Benth. [n/a] pro parte taxonomic synonym: Hypoestes floribunda var. paniculata (Benth.) Ewart & O.B.Davies legitimate pro parte misapplication: Hypoestes floribunda var. pubescens Benth. legitimate by Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 554

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Bean, A.R. in Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (ed.) (8 December 2010), Acanthaceae. Census of the Queensland Flora 2010: 5 [secondary reference]

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