Mueller, F.J.H. von & Holtze, M. in Mueller, F.J.H. von (1891), Select Extra-Tropical Plants Edn. 8: 529 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Arnheims Land."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1891), Descriptions of new Australian Plants with occasional other annotations (continued). The Victorian Naturalist 8(1): 115 [secondary reference]

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

• Lectotype: "M. Holtze s.n., 1891, Inland from Port Darwin (MEL 601964; isolectotypes: (K, NSW)"

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Hypoestes floribunda var. varia R.M.Barker legitimate

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