Stapf, O. (1912), Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1912: 380 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Akania Hook.f.

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 795 [secondary reference]

Reynolds, S.T. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Akaniaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 484-485 [secondary reference]

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (25 December 1985), Akaniaceae. Flora of Australia 25: 2 [secondary reference]

Floyd, A.G. (1989), Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia: 62 [secondary reference]

Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Akaniaceae. Flora of New South Wales 2: 309-310 [secondary reference]

Takhtajan, A.L. (1997), Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: 300, 301 [secondary reference]

Bayer, C. & Appel, O. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2002), Akaniaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 5: 21-24 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Bretschneideraceae Engl. & Gilg nom. cons.

Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Akaniaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 362 [secondary reference]

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003), An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 419 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Bretschneideraceae Engl. & Gilg nom. cons.

Thorne, R.F. & Reveal, J.L. (2007), An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida ("Angiospermae"). Botanical Review 73(2): 116 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 24, 936 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Bretschneideraceae Engl. & Gilg nom. cons.

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009), An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161(2): 114 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Bretschneideraceae Engl. & Gilg nom. cons.

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