Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 332 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 154 [secondary reference]

Labillardière, J.J.H. de (1805), Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen 1(11): 87 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 82 [secondary reference]

common name: Sea-heath [n/a]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 150-153 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 26 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 44 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 391 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After John Frankenius, 1590-1661, professor of botany at the University of Upsala, Sweden."

Hitchcock, A.S. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species. Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists: 147 [secondary reference]

• Type: Frankenia laevis L.

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 580 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After John Frankenius, 1590-1661, professor of botany at the University of Upsala, Sweden."

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 60 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 228 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 64 [secondary reference]

Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. in Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. (ed.) (1979), Index Nominum Genericorum 2: 687 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Franca Boehm. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Menetho Raf. legitimate

Barnsley, B. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Frankeniaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 224-225 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 407 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 130 [secondary reference]

Barnsley, B. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Frankeniaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 113-146 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT, SA (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), NI (naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised)

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Frankeniaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 157 [secondary reference]

Miller, C. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Frankeniaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 452 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Frankeniaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 243-244 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 124-125 [secondary reference]

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Frankeniaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 372-373 [secondary reference]

Miller, C. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Frankeniaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 452 [secondary reference]

Kubitzki, K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2002), Frankeniaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 5: 211, Fig. 37 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 617 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 343-344 [secondary reference]

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