Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 503 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europae australis arenosis, ruderatis."

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xcv [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(79): 173 [secondary reference]

Tate, R. (1880), A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns of Extra-Tropical South Australia. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 3: 89 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 5, 140 [secondary reference]

Anonymous (1883), Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council: 89 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1883), The plants indigenous around Sharks Bay and its vicinity. Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council: 5 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (10 March 1884), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 1: 4 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 8 [secondary reference]

Tate, R. (1890), A Handbook of the Flora of Extratropical South Australia: 15, 206 [secondary reference]

Tepper, J.G.O. (1893), Die flora of Roebuck Bay, Nord-West Australien. Botanisches Centralblatt 54(9): 259 [secondary reference]

Tate, R. in Spencer, W.B. (ed.) (March 1896), Botany. Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia 3: 137 [secondary reference]

Bennett, F. (1905), The botany of Irvinebank and its immediate neighbourhood. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 19: 70 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 242 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Capparis nummularia DC. legitimate common name: Caper-bush [n/a]

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 685 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Capparis nummularia DC. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(79): 173

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Capparis nummularia DC. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 5, 140

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Capparis nummularia DC. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1883), The plants indigenous around Sharks Bay and its vicinity. Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council: 5

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Capparis nummularia DC. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 8

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Capparis nummularia DC. legitimate by Tate, R. (1890), A Handbook of the Flora of Extratropical South Australia: 15, 206

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Capparis nummularia DC. legitimate by Tepper, J.G.O. (1893), Die flora of Roebuck Bay, Nord-West Australien. Botanisches Centralblatt 54(9): 259

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Capparis nummularia DC. legitimate by Tate, R. in Spencer, W.B. (ed.) (March 1896), Botany. Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia 3: 137

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Capparis nummularia DC. legitimate by Bennett, F. (1905), The botany of Irvinebank and its immediate neighbourhood. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 19: 70

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 369 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Capparis nummularia DC. legitimate common name: Caper-bush [n/a]

Jacobs, M. (December 1960), Capparidaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 6(1): 89-92 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, M. (1965), The genus Capparis (Capparaceae) from the Indus to the Pacific. Blumea 12(3): 416-423 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 78 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Capparaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 258-259, Fig. 73F [secondary reference]

common name: Flinders Rose [n/a] common name: Caper bush [n/a]

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

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Fici, S. (2015), A taxonomic revision of the Capparis spinosa group (Capparaceae) from eastern Africa to Oceania. Phytotaxa 203(1): 24-25 [secondary reference]

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