Jussieu, A.L. de (4 August 1789), Genera Plantarum: 102 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Acanthus L.

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 541 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 99 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 518 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 777 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 412 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 538 [secondary reference]

Barker, W.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Pedaliaceae, Acanthaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 336 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 963-966, Fig. 6-26 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Acanthaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 452-453 [secondary reference]

Barker, R.M. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Acanthaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 843-844 [secondary reference]

Everett, J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Acanthaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 604 [secondary reference]

Takhtajan, A.L. (1997), Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: 456, 459-460 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Acanthaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 542 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Acanthaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 163 [secondary reference]

Jessup, L.W. (22 April 2002), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 2 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Thunbergiaceae Lilja legitimate

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): 420 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Justiciaceae Raf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Avicenniaceae Miq. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Thunbergiaceae Lilja legitimate taxonomic synonym: Mendonciaceae Bremek. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Thomandersiaceae Sreem. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Nelsoniaceae Sreem. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Meyeniaceae Sreem. legitimate

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 8 [secondary reference]

Thorne, R.F. & Reveal, J.L. (2007), An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida ("Angiospermae"). Botanical Review 73(2): 140 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Justiciaceae Raf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Avicenniaceae Miq. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Thunbergiaceae Lilja legitimate taxonomic synonym: Mendonciaceae Bremek. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Thomandersiaceae Sreem. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Nelsoniaceae Sreem. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Meyeniaceae Sreem. legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Acanthi Juss. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Avicenniaceae Miq. nom. cons.

• APC Comment: Avicenniaceae is recognised as distinct in Qld, represented by Avicennia.
• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), CoI, ChI (native and naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI, NI (naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 4, 938 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Avicenniaceae Miq. 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): 117 [secondary reference]

Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (2010), Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Edn. 6: - [secondary reference]

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