Adanson, M. (1763), Histoire de l'Academie Royale des Sciences for 1761: 218 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Arbre du Cap-vert à feuilles des figuire."

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 67 [secondary reference]

Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. in Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. (ed.) (1979), Index Nominum Genericorum 1: 176 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Adansonia L. legitimate

Baum, D.A. (1995), A systematic revision of Adansonia (Bombacaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 82(3): 445 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Adansonia L. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Baobabus Kuntze orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Adansonia L. legitimate

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