Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 346 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 163 [secondary reference]

Hooker, J.D. in Hooker, W.J. (1847), Florae Tasmaniae Spicilegium: or, Contributions towards a Flora of Van Diemen's Land. London Journal of Botany 6: 475, bis [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 302 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 49 [secondary reference]

Rose, J.N. (1905), Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 8: 330 [secondary reference]

• Type: Oenothera biennis L.

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 215 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 427 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greco-Latin name of some plant, probably belonging to this family."

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 637-638 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greco-Latin name of some plant, probably belonging to this family."

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 173 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 236 [secondary reference]

common name: Evening Primrose [n/a]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 243 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 278 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 646, 647 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 171 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Onagraceae. Flora of Central Australia: 261 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Onagraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 224 [secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Onagraceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 431-432 [secondary reference]

Thompson, J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Onagraceae. Flora of Australia 18: 218-225 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Dalby, J.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Onagraceae. Flora of New South Wales 2: 205 [secondary reference]

common name: Evening Primrose [n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 204, 206 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Onagraceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 934 [secondary reference]

Dalby, J.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Onagraceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 240 [secondary reference]

common name: Evening Primrose [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 726 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 596-597 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Gaura L. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym: Gaura L. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Aenothera Poir. orth. var. orthographic variant: Enothera F.M.Bailey orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Gaura L. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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