Blanco, F.M. (1837), Flora de Filipinas Edn. 1: 783 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Lunasia amara Blanco

White, C.T. (1946), Contributions to the Queensland Flora, No. 9. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 57: 22 [secondary reference]

Hartley, T.G. (8 July 1967), A revision of the genus Lunasia (Rutaceae). Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 48(4): 460-464 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 467 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 505 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld

Hartley, T.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2013), Lunasia. Flora of Australia 26: 60-61 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "from the Tagalog word Lunas (one of the vernacular names for the type species.)"

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