Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 121 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 57 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1864), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 4(29): 146 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 39 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 64 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 459 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 2: 575 [secondary reference]

• Type: Elaeagnus angustifolius L.

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 606, 607, 608 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Elaeagnaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 96 [secondary reference]

Bartish, I.V. & Swenson, U. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Elaeagnaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 6: 133-134, Fig. 45 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 157 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: Qld

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 299 [secondary reference]

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