Jussieu, A.L. de (4 August 1789), Genera Plantarum: 128 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Borago L.

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 383 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 5, 6, 239 [secondary reference]

Ewart, A.J. (1925), Handbook of Forest Trees for Victorian Foresters: 410 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 469-471 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 707-708 [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: 397 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 263 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 486-487 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 306-310 [secondary reference]

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 214 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 917-920, Fig. 6-14 [secondary reference]

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Mitchell, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Boraginaceae (except Halgania). Flora of Central Australia: 289 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Boraginaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 356-357 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Boraginaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 546 [secondary reference]

Floyd, A.G. (1989), Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia: 81 [secondary reference]

Craven, L.A. & Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Boraginaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 766-767 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Boraginaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 386-387 [secondary reference]

Takhtajan, A.L. (1997), Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: 443, 444-445 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Boraginaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 387-388 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Boraginaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 139 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 534 [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: Ehretiaceae Mart. nom. cons.

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: Hydrophyllaceae R.Br. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Heliotropiaceae Schrad. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Ehretiaceae Mart. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Cordiaceae R.Br. ex Dumort. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Lennoaceae Solms legitimate taxonomic synonym: Wellstediaceae Novak legitimate

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 92 [secondary reference]

Thorne, R.F. & Reveal, J.L. (2007), An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida ("Angiospermae"). Botanical Review 73(2): 133 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Sebestenaceae Vent. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Buglossaceae Hoffmanns. & Link nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Anchusaceae Vest legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heliotropiaceae Schrad. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Onosmaceae Martinov legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cerinthaceae Bercht. & J.Presl legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ehretiaceae Mart. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Cordiaceae R.Br. ex Dumort. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Echiaceae Raf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cynoglossaceae Döll legitimate taxonomic synonym: Wellstediaceae Novak legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Borragineae Juss. orth. var. orthographic variant: Borraginaceae J.M.Black orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Hydrophyllaceae R.Br. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Heliotropiaceae Schrad. nom. cons.

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

• Comment: The ordinal placement of Boraginaceae within Asteranae remains unclear.

Floyd, A.G. (2008), Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia Edn. 2: 88 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 113-114, 937 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hydrophyllaceae R.Br. 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): 116-117 [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: 21 (photo) [secondary reference]

common name: Borage [n/a]

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