Moench, C. (1794), Methodus Plantas Horti Botanici et Agri Marburgensis: 143 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Basilicum polystachyon (L.) Moench

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 292 [secondary reference]

Keng, W. (1978), Labiatae. Flora Malesiana Series I 8(3): 366 [secondary reference]

Haegi, L.A.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Labiatae (Lamiaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 312 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Moschosma Rchb. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Lamiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 393 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Lamiaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 803 [secondary reference]

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 271 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Lamiaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 153 [secondary reference]

Harley, R.M., Atkins, S., Budantsev, A.L., Cantino, P.D., Conn, B.J., Grayer, R., Harley, M.M., de Kok, R., Krestovskaja, T., Morales, R., Paton, A.J., Ryding, O. & Upson, T. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Labiatae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 7: 262 [secondary reference]

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 93 [secondary reference]

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

pro parte taxonomic synonym: Moschosma Rchb. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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