Adanson, M. (1763), Familles des Plantes 2: 327 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated.)

Linnaeus, C. (October 1767), Systema Naturae Edn. 12, 2: 472 [secondary reference]

• Type: Abrus precatorius L.

Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856), North Australian Botany. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 8: 324 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 270 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 41 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (10 March 1884), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 1: 4 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 140 [secondary reference]

Breteler, F.J. (1960), Revision of Abrus Adanson (Pap.) with special reference to Africa. Blumea 10(2): 607-624 [secondary reference]

Verdcourt, B. (1970), Studies in the Leguminosae-Papilionoideae for the 'Flora of Tropical East Africa': II. Kew Bulletin 24(2): 236-253 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 601 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 316, 320 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae). Flora of the Kimberley Region: 365 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 46 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 200 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 2 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

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

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