Fabaceae Lindl.
Ononis spinosa L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 716 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Habitat in aridis Europae."
  • Comment: See proposal to reject the name by C.E.Jervis, P.B.Ivimey-Cook & P.F.Cannon, Taxon 32 (1983) 314–316 and recommendation by Committee for Spermatophyta, Taxon 34 (1985) 662 and further recommendation of Committee to conserve the name with a new type in Taxon 38 (1980) 299–300.
Ewart, A.J. (1908), Contributions to the Flora of Australia No. VIII. The Victorian Naturalist 24(12): 193 [secondary reference]
Ewart, A.J. (1915), Contributions to the Flora of Australia, No. 22. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 27: 302 [secondary reference]
Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Fabaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 718-719, Fig. 145j [secondary reference]
common name: Spiny Restharrow [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
misapplication: Ononis arvensis L. legitimate by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 39 misapplication: Ononis repens L. legitimate by Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 147
  • APC Dist.: Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 46 [secondary reference]
misapplication: Ononis arvensis L. legitimate by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 39 misapplication: Ononis repens L. legitimate by Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 147 misapplication: Ononis repens L. legitimate by Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 152