Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 222 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Beta vulgaris L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 103 [secondary reference]

Ewart, A.J. (August 1907), Contributions to the Flora of Australia, No. 6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 20(1): 86 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 182 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: Latin for the beet.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 293 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin for the beet."

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 573 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 263, 264 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 101 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Paul G. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of Australia 4: 277 APC [secondary reference]

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

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 216 [secondary reference]

Kuhn, U. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Chenopodiaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 265 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 185 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 216 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 102 [secondary reference]

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