Molina, G.I. (1782), Saggio sulla storia naturale Del Chili Edn. 1: 177, 349 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Maytenus boaria Molina

Loesener, L.E.T. in Engler, H.G.A. & Prantl, K.A.E. (1942), Celastraceae. Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien Edn. 2, 20b: 135 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 303 [secondary reference]

Ding Hou (December 1962), Celastraceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 6(2): 239-243 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 100 [secondary reference]

Jessup, L.W. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Celastraceae. Flora of Australia 22: 159-164 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Celastrus sect. Gymnosporia Wight & Arn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gymnosporia (Wight & Arn.) Benth. & Hook.f. nom. cons.

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Celastraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 35 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 192 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Gymnosporia (Wight & Arn.) Benth. & Hook.f. nom. cons.

James, T.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Celastraceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 36-37 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Celastraceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 583-585 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 203 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 118 [secondary reference]

Simmons, M.P. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Celastraceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 6: 48, Fig. 15 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

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

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 529-530 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Maytenus sect. Stenophylla Loes. nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Maytenus subg. Pseudocelastrus Loes. nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Maytenus subg. Eumaytenus Loes. nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: WA, Qld, Tas (naturalised)

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