Endlicher, S.F.L. (1833), Prodromus Florae Norfolkicae: 69 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Crescit in insula Norfolk, mense Octobri florens. (Ferd. Bauer.)"

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(47): 188 [basionym]

basionym of: Melothria baueriana (Endl.) F.Muell. legitimate

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 129-130, figs 21, 41 [secondary reference]

common name: Giant Cucumber [n/a] common name: Native Cucumber [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Melothria baueriana (Endl.) F.Muell. legitimate

• APC Dist.: NI

Wilde, W.J.J.O. de & Duyfjes, B.E.E. (2006), Redefinition of Zehneria and four new related genera (Cucurbitaceae), with an enumeration of the Australasian and Pacific species. Blumea 51(1): 51 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "(here chosen): F. Bauer in Herb. Endlicher s.n., male (W; iso B, K, LE), Norfolk Islands."

nomenclatural synonym: Melothria baueriana (Endl.) F.Muell. legitimate

Wilde, W.J.J.O. de & Duyfjes, B.E.E. (2009), Miscellaneous cucurbit news III. The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore 61(1): 211-215, Fig. 3 [secondary reference]

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