Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 110 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Avicennia officinalis L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 49 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 518 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 103 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 387 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 483 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After the Perso-Arabian physician Ibn Sina, 980-1037, whose name was Latinised as Avicenna, his medical works having a great repute in Europe during and after the middle ages."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 726 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After the Perso-Arabian physician Ibn Sina, 980-1037, whose name was Latinized as Avicenna, his medical works having a great repute in Europe during and after the middle ages."

Moldenke, H.N. (1960), Materials toward a monograph of the genus Avicennia. I. Phytologia 7(3): 124-144 [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: 416 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 920 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 88 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Avicenniaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 374 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Avicenniaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 556 [secondary reference]

Duke, N.C. (18 October 1991), A systematic revision of the mangrove genus Avicennia (Avicenniaceae) in Australasia. Australian Systematic Botany 4(2): 302-306 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, LHI, Vic

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Avicenniaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 621 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Avicenniaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 800 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Verbenaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 412 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 86 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 83 [secondary reference]

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