Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 193 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 89 [secondary reference]

Adanson, M. (1763), Familles des Plantes 2: 1501 [secondary reference]

• Type: Rhamnus catharticus L.

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 413 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 60 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Dallachya F.Muell. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 100 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 365 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greco-Latin rhamnos, some thorny shrub."

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 545 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greco-Latin rhamnos, some thorny shrub"

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 744, 746 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 186 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Rhamnaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 42 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Rhamnaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 459 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Rhamnaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 355 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Rhamnus. Flora of Victoria 4: 84-85 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Rhamnaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 355 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 425 [secondary reference]

Medan, D. & Schirarend, C. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Rhamnaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 6: 332 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 734 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (native and doubtfully naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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