Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 272 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Basella rubra L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 133 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 270 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. (1993), Basellaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 122 [secondary reference]

Sperling, C.R. & Bittrich, V. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Basellaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 145-146, Fig. 21 A-F [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: ChI (naturalised), Qld (doubtfully naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 93 [secondary reference]

Nyffeler, R. & Eggli, U. (2010), Disintegrating Portulacaceae: A new familial classification of the suborder Portulacineae (Caryophyllales) based on molecular and morphological data. Taxon 59(1): 233 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: ChI (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

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