Anderson, R.H. (1930), Notes on the Australian Species of the Genus Atriplex. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 55(5): 496, t. 18, fig. 4 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Minore, J.L. Boorman, February, 1899."

Aellen, P. (1938), Revision der australischen und neuseelandischen Chenopodiaceen I: Theleophyton, Atriplex, Morrisiella, Blackiella, Senniella, Pachypharynx. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 68(5): 415 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 242, Fig. 44.26, 244, 245 [secondary reference]

common name: Spiny-fruit Saltbush [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 100 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Paul G. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of Australia 4: 110 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 213 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 140, Fig. 27r [secondary reference]

common name: Spiny-fruit Saltbush [n/a]

Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000), Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1: 25 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 213 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Atriplex spinibractum R.H.Anderson orth. var.

• APC Comment: Intermediates with A. semibaccata are known.
• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, Vic

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