Aublet, J.B.C.F. (1775), Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane Francoise 1: 121, t. 46 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Rapanea guianensis Aublet

Mez, C.C. in Engler, H.G.A. (6 May 1902), Myrsinaceae. Das Pflanzenreich 9: 354 [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: 360 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 516 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 153 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Myrsinaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 267 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Myrsinaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 503 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Myrsinaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 275 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 150-151 [secondary reference]

Jackes, B.R. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Myrsinaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 515-516 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Myrsinaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 503 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 336 [secondary reference]

Stahl, A. & Anderberg, A.A. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Mysinaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 6: 274-275 [secondary reference]

Jackes, B.R. (27 October 2005), Revision of Myrsine (Myrsinaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 18(5): 405 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Myrsine L. legitimate

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 568 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Myrsine L. legitimate

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