Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 600 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: Given as PRUNELLA in the Sp. Pl. and as BRUNELLA in the Gen. Pl.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 261 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 507 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 101 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 234 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 388 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 3: 115 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Prunella vulgaris L.

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 156 [secondary reference]

common name: Self Heal [n/a]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 492 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Brunella or prunella was the name given in medieval Latin to an inflammation of the throat, probably from the German Braune, quinzy; the plant supposed to sure the disease was called by the old herbalists herba brunellae; it is now known as B. vulgaris."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 739 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 418 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 269 [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Brunella L. orth. var.

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 549 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 318 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 138 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Lamiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 391 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Lamiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 640 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Lamiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 435-436 [secondary reference]

common name: Selfheal [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 647 [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: 249 [secondary reference]

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

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: 703 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Brunella L. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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