Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 618 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 270 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (July 1892), Contributions to the Queensland flora. Botany Bulletin. Department of Agriculture, Queensland 5: 21 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 516 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After John Martyn, 1699-1768, professor of botany at Cambridge and author of several botanical works."

Green, M.L. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species. Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists: 167 [secondary reference]

• Type: Martynia annua L.

Backer, C.A. (December 1951), Pedaliaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(3): 219-221 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 967 [secondary reference]

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

Brooks, A.K. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Martyniaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 603 [secondary reference]

common name: Small-fruited Devil's Claw [n/a]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 394 [secondary reference]

Ihlenfeldt, H.-D. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Martyniaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 7: 287-288, Fig. 32B-E [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 526 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

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