Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 592 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 257 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1855), Third systematic index of the plants of Victoria. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 8 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 73 [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, 3: 137 [secondary reference]

• Type: Melissa officinalis L.

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 493 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Neo-Latin, from Greek melissa, a bee: plants visited for their honey; the classical name was melissophyllon."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 739 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Neo-Latin, from Greek melissa, a bee: plants visited for their honey; the classical name was melissophyllon.

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 546 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 136 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Lamiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 633 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Lamiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 438 APC [secondary reference]

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

Bown, D. (2002), New Encyclopedia of Herbs & Their Uses Edn. Revised: 274 [secondary reference]

Harley, R.M., Atkins, S., Budantsev, A.L., Cantino, P.D., Conn, B.J., Grayer, R., Harley, M.M., de Kok, R., Krestovskaja, T., Morales, R., Paton, A.J., Ryding, O. & Upson, T. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Labiatae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 7: 253 [secondary reference]

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 536 [secondary reference]

---