Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 692 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 309 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 206 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 14 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 25 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 58 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Wilson, Percy (8 November 1924), Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands 5(4): 558 [secondary reference]

• Type: Urena lobata L.

Borssum Waalkes, J. van (1966), Malesian Malvaceae revisited. Blumea 14(1): 137-145 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 145 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Malvaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 63 [secondary reference]

Craven, L.A. & Fryxell, P.A. (1989), Urena (Malvaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 2(4): 455-460 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. & Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Malvaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 326 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Malvaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 234 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Malvaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 148-149 [secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Malvaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 80 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. & Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Malvaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 326 [secondary reference]

Bayer, C. & Kubitzki, K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2002), Malvaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 5: 287-288 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 281 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

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

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 887 [secondary reference]

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