Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 960 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 410 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 349 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 23 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 127 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 418 [secondary reference]

common name: Birthwort [n/a]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 1: 645 [secondary reference]

• Type: Aristolochia rotunda L.

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 91, 92, 93 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 69 [secondary reference]

Ding Hou (1984), Aristolochiaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 10(1): 83-108 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Aristolochiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 183-185 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Aristolochiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 124-125 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Aristolochiaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 64 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. (1993), Aristolochiaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 77 [secondary reference]

Huber, H. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Aristolochiaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 137 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000), Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1: 19 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Aristolochiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 124-125 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 75 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. & Halford, D.A. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2007), Aristolochiaceae. Flora of Australia 2: 250-251 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT, Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 67, 632 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Pararistolochia Hutch. & Dalziel legitimate

Soltis, D.E., Smith, S.A., Cellinese, N., Wurdack, K.J., Tank, D.C., Brockington, S.F., Refulio-Rodriguez, N.F., Walker, J.B., Moore, M.J., Carlswars, B.S., Bell, C.D., Latvis, M., Crawley, S., Black, C., Diouf, D., Xi, Z., Rushworth, C.A., Gitzendanner, M.A., Sytsma, K.J., Qui, Y., Hilu, K.W., Davis, C.C., Sanderson, M.J., Beaman, R.S., Olmstead, R.G., Judd, W.S., Donoghue, M.J. & Soltis, P.S. (1 April 2011), Angiosperm Phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa. American Journal of Botany 98(4): 708, Fig. 2A [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Pararistolochia Hutch. & Dalziel legitimate

• APC Comment: Pararistolochia is recognised as a distinct taxon in Qld.
• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT, Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised)

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