Jussieu, A.L. de (4 August 1789), Genera Plantarum: 242 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Capparis L.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 4 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 4, 6, 9, 10, 34 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 241 [secondary reference]

Ewart, A.J. (1925), Handbook of Forest Trees for Victorian Foresters: 126 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 368 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 443-446, Fig. 4-31 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cleomaceae Bercht. & J.Presl legitimate

Pedley, L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Capparaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 92 [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Capparidaceae J.M.Black orth. var.

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Capparaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 207 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Capparaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 198-201 [secondary reference]

Floyd, A.G. (1989), Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia: 84-85 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Capparaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 455 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Capparaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 255 [secondary reference]

Takhtajan, A.L. (1997), Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: 217-218, 219 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Capparaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 455 [secondary reference]

Kers, L.E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2002), Capparaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 5: 36-56, Figs.11-13 [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): 428 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Brassicaceae Burnett nom. cons.

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 109 [secondary reference]

Thorne, R.F. & Reveal, J.L. (2007), An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida ("Angiospermae"). Botanical Review 73(2): 115 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Capparidaceae J.M.Black orth. var.

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

Floyd, A.G. (2008), Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia Edn. 2: 94 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 149, 936 [secondary reference]

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]

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