Jussieu, A.L. de (4 August 1789), Genera Plantarum: 92 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Plumbago L.

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 265 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 26 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 453 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 678 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "The family derives its name from the genus Plumbago..."

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 360 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 465 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 282-285, Fig. 3.12 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Plumbaginaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 272 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Plumbaginaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 270 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Plumbaginaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 117-118 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Plumbaginaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 373 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Plumbaginaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 149 [secondary reference]

Kubitzki, K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Plumbaginaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 523-530, Figs. 112, 113 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Plumbaginaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 296 [secondary reference]

Takhtajan, A.L. (1997), Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: 126-127 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Plumbaginaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 373 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 797 [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): 418 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Staticaceae Cassel legitimate taxonomic synonym: Limoniaceae Ser. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Aegialitidaceae Lincz. legitimate

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 403 [secondary reference]

Thorne, R.F. & Reveal, J.L. (2007), An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida ("Angiospermae"). Botanical Review 73(2): 97 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Staticaceae Cassel legitimate taxonomic synonym: Armeriaceae Horan. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Limoniaceae Ser. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Aegialitidaceae Lincz. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym: Limoniaceae Ser. nom. cons.

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT, SA (naturalised), Qld (native and doubtfully naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), NI (native and naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 682, 933 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Limoniaceae Ser. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Aegialitidaceae Lincz. legitimate

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): 115 [secondary reference]

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