Linnaeus, C. (October 1771), Mantissa Plantarum Altera [2]: 150, 237 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Turraea virens L.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1860), Essay on the plants collected by Mr Eugene Fitzalan during Lieut. Smith's Expedition to the Estuary of the Burdekin: 7 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 379 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 9 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 16 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 86 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 815 [secondary reference]

Reynolds, S.T. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Meliaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 476-477 [secondary reference]

Taylor, M.J. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Meliaceae. Flora of New South Wales 2: 282 [secondary reference]

Koch, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Meliaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 665 [secondary reference]

Taylor, M.J. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Meliaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 332 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 293 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 880 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

Mabberley, D.J. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2013), Meliaceae. Flora of Australia 26: 18 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "probably commemorating one of the Italian botanists, possibly Georgio a Turre (fl. 1680s) or, more likely, Antonio Turra (1730-1796)."

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