Jussieu, A.L. de (4 August 1789), Genera Plantarum: 117 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Scrophularia L.

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 470 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 97 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 504-506 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 761-762 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "The family derives its name from the genus Scrophularia, so called in the middle ages because some European species were supposed to cure scrofula or king's evil (tuberculous glands)."

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 406-407 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 278-279 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 510-511 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 322 [secondary reference]

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 216 [secondary reference]

Barker, W.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 326 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 951-953, Fig. 6-22 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Martyniaceae Horan. nom. cons.

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 596-602 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 433-435 [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), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 583 [secondary reference]

Barker, W.R. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 552-553 [secondary reference]

Barker, W.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 811-813 [secondary reference]

Takhtajan, A.L. (1997), Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: 453, 457-458 [secondary reference]

Barker, W.R. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 483-486 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Scrophulariaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 154-155 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 883 [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): 420 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Myoporaceae R.Br. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Verbascaceae Bercht. & J.Presl legitimate taxonomic synonym: Selaginaceae Choisy nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Buddlejaceae K.Wilh. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Oftiaceae Takht. & Reveal legitimate

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 513 [secondary reference]

Fischer, E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Scrophulariaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 7: 333-432, Figs. 42-53 [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: Myoporaceae R.Br. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Verbascaceae Bercht. & J.Presl legitimate taxonomic synonym: Caprariaceae Martinov legitimate taxonomic synonym: Selaginaceae Choisy nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Hebenstretiaceae Horan. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Bontiaceae Horan. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Spielmanniaceae J.Agardh nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Buddlejaceae K.Wilh. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Oftiaceae Takht. & Reveal legitimate taxonomic synonym: Hemimeridaceae Doweld legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Scrophulariae Juss. orth. var. orthographic variant: Myoporinae R.Br. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Myoporaceae R.Br. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Selaginaceae Choisy nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Buddlejaceae K.Wilh. nom. cons.

• APC Comment: Buddlejaceae is recognised as distinct in Qld, represented by Buddleja and Polypremum. Myoporaceae is recognised as distinct in Qld, represented by Eremophila and Myoporum.
• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT, SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (native and naturalised), NI (native and naturalised), ACT (native and naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (native and naturalised)

Floyd, A.G. (2008), Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia Edn. 2: 412 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 784, 938 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Myoporaceae R.Br. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Selaginaceae Choisy nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Buddlejaceae K.Wilh. 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]

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 27 (photo) [secondary reference]

common name: Eremophila [n/a]

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