Necker, N.M.J. de (1819), Monographia des Rumex: 55, 56, t. 1, fig. 1 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Meisner, C.D.F. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1845), Polygoneae. Plantae Preissianae 1(4): 625 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 31 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 417 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 174 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "An artificial name, formed after Rumex."

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 282 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "An artificial name, formed after Rumex."

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 157 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 582 [secondary reference]

Henshall, T.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Polygonaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 29 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 176 [secondary reference]

Voss, E.G. (1983), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Sydney, 1981. Regnum Vegetabile 111: 343 [secondary reference]

• Type: Emex spinosa (L.) Campderá, typ. cons.

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Polygonaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 87 [secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Polygonaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 111 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Polygonaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 293 [secondary reference]

Brandbyge, J. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 541 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Polygonaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 294-295 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Polygonaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 293 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 801 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 304 [secondary reference]

Schuster, T.M., Reveal, J.L., Bayly, M.J. & Kron, K.A. (2015), An updated molecular phylogeny of Polygonoideae (Polygonaceae): Relationships of Oxygonum, Pteroxygonum, and Rumex, and a new circumscription of Koenigia. Taxon 64(6): 1204 [basionym]

basionym of: Rumex subg. Emex (Neck. ex Campd.) T.M.Schust. & Reveal legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Rumex L. legitimate

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