Desfontaines, R.L. (1818), Nouveau genre de la famille des Terebintacees: Heterodendrum. Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 4: 8, t. 3 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Heterodendrum oleaefolium Desf.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 90 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 469 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 24 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 116 [secondary reference]

Ewart, A.J. (1925), Handbook of Forest Trees for Victorian Foresters: 208 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 362 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek heteros, different, variable; dendron, a tree."

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 540 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek heteros, different, variable; dendron, a tree."

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 197 [secondary reference]

West, J.G. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Sapindaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 199 [secondary reference]

Reynolds, S.T. (14 April 1982), Notes on Sapindaceae in Australia, II. Austrobaileya 1(5): 481-485 [secondary reference]

Reynolds, S.T. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Sapindaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 503-504, 510 [secondary reference]

Reynolds, S.T. in George, A.S. (ed.) (25 December 1985), Sapindaceae. Flora of Australia 25: 20 [secondary reference]

Reynolds, S.T. (24 September 1987), Notes on Sapindaceae, V. Austrobaileya 2(4): 334 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Alectryon Gaertn. legitimate

Leenhouts, P.W. (1988), A revision of Alectryon (Sapindaceae) in Malesia. Blumea 33(2): 313 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Alectryon Gaertn. legitimate

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 205 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Alectryon Gaertn. legitimate

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Sapindaceae (excl. Dodonaea). Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 340 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Alectryon Gaertn. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Heterodendron Spreng. orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Alectryon Gaertn. legitimate

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