Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 8 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 8 [secondary reference]

Andrews, H.C. (1803), The Botanist's Repository for New, and Rare Plants 5: t. 316 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 293, 297 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 92 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 311 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. (1918), Flora of Bermuda: 289 [secondary reference]

• Type: Olea europaea L.

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 454 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin for the olive-tree and also its fruit."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 685 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin for the olive-tree and also its fruit."

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 348 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 950 [secondary reference]

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

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Oleaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 283 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Oleaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 570 [secondary reference]

Nilsson, S. (1988), A survey of the pollen morphology of Olea with particular reference to Olea europaea sens. lat. Kew Bulletin 43(2): 303 [secondary reference]

Hardin, D.W. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Oleaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 472 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 328 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Oleaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 480 [secondary reference]

Wallander, E. & Albert, V.A. (1 December 2000), Phylogeny and classification of Oleaceae based on rps16 and trnL-F sequence data. American Journal of Botany 87(12): 1840 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 725 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 379 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Oleaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 7: 313 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 598 [secondary reference]

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

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

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