Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 375 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Parkinsonia aculeata L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 177 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1900), The Queensland Flora 2: 453 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 151 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 96 [secondary reference]

Symon, D.E. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Caesalpinaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 104 [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Caesalpiniaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 394 [secondary reference]

Wiecek, B. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Parkinsonia. Flora of New South Wales 2: 315 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Caesalpiniaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 347 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 34 [secondary reference]

Ross, J.H. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Parkinsonia. Flora of Australia 12: 69 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 89 [secondary reference]

Wiecek, B. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Parkinsonia. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 367 [secondary reference]

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Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 634 [secondary reference]

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