Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 128 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 62 [secondary reference]

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Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 208 [secondary reference]

common name: Pearlwort [n/a]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 159-160 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 27 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 77, 78 [secondary reference]

common name: Pearlwort [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 48 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 2: 51 [secondary reference]

• Type: Sagina procumbens L.

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 230 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: Latin for "fattening, nourishment": a word applied by Linnaeus to this genus.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 353 [secondary reference]

common name: Pearlwort [n/a]

• Etymology: "Latin for "fattening, nourishment', a word applied by Linnaeus to this genus."

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 69 [secondary reference]

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Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - APC [secondary reference]

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

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