Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 474 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Trapezunte unde in Europam venit 1576."

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 167 [secondary reference]

Symon, D.E. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 1: 451 [secondary reference]

Smith, J.M.B. (26 May 1988), Prunus (Amygdalaceae) in New South Wales. Telopea 3(2): 156 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Harden, G.J. & Rodd, A.N. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Amygdalaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 550 [secondary reference]

common name: Cherry Laurel [n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. & Jobson, P.C. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Rosaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 585, Fig. 119m [secondary reference]

common name: Cherry Laurel [n/a]

Harden, G.J. & Rodd, A.N. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Amygdalaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 550 [secondary reference]

common name: Cherry Laurel [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Prunus lusitanica L. legitimate by Symon, D.E. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 1: 451

Keighery, G.J. (2011), Prunus (Rosaceae or Amygdalaceae) in Western Australia. Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 144-145: 36 [secondary reference]

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 71 [secondary reference]

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