Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 636 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 283 [secondary reference]

Loudon, J.C. (1830), Loudon's Hortus Britannicus Edn. 1: 244 [secondary reference]

Green, M.L. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species. Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists: 169 [secondary reference]

• Type: Barleria cristata L.

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 965 [secondary reference]

Barker, R.M. (12 September 1986), A taxonomic revision of Australian Acanthaceae. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 9: 125-128 [secondary reference]

Barker, R.M. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Acanthaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 381 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: NT (naturalised), Qld (formerly naturalised)

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 9 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 92 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

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

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