Medikus, F.K. (1787), Ueber einige künstliche Geschlechter aus der Malven-Familie, denn der Klasse der Monadelphien: 45 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Walpers, W.G. (September 1842), Repertorium Botanices Systematicae 1(2): 309 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. & Hooker, J.D. (7 August 1862), Genera Plantarum 1(1): 208 [basionym]

basionym of: Hibiscus sect. Abelmoschus Benth. & Hook.f. nom. illeg.

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 207 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Hibiscus L. nom. cons.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 25 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Hibiscus L. nom. cons.

Britton, N.L. & Millspaugh, C.F. (1920), The Bahama Fl: 272 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Abelmoschus moschatus Medikus

Borssum Waalkes, J. van (1966), Malesian Malvaceae revisited. Blumea 14(1): 89-105 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hibiscus sect. Abelmoschus Benth. & Hook.f. nom. illeg.

Bates, D.M. (1968), Notes on the Cultivated Malvaceae 2. Abelmoschus. Baileya; a Quarterly Journal of Horticultural Taxonomy 16: 99-112 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 361 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 143 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Malvaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 68 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. & Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Malvaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 327-328 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Malvaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 201 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Malvaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 146 [secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Malvaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 76 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. & Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Malvaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 327 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Hibiscus sect. Abelmoschus G.Don legitimate taxonomic synonym: Hibiscus sect. Abelmoschus Benth. & Hook.f. nom. illeg.

• APC Dist.: WA, ChI, NT, Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 1 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Hibiscus L. nom. cons.

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