Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 406 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europae arvis, arenosis."

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 160 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. in Britten, J. (1906), Plantae introductae vicinitatis Portus Jackson, in Introduced Plants at Sydney, 1802-4. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 44: 235 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 73 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 77 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 304 [secondary reference]

common name: Knawel [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 98 [secondary reference]

Doust, A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Caryophyllaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 266 [secondary reference]

Cowley, K.J. & West, J.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Scleranthus. Flora of Victoria 3: 249, Fig. 48a-c APC [secondary reference]

common name: Annual Knawel [n/a]

• APC Dist.: NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Doust, A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Caryophyllaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 266 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000), Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1: 29 [secondary reference]

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