Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 511 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: For note on typification see D.H.Nicolson, Taxon 28 (1979) 367–373.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 227 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 223 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Salmalia Schott & Endl. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 15 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 26 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 61 [secondary reference]

Bakhuizen van den Brink, R.C. (1924), Revisio Bombacacearum. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg ser. 3, 6: 174-186 [secondary reference]

Chatterjee, D. & Raizada, M.B. (1954), Note on the Typification of the Generic Name Bombax L. Taxon 3: 102 [secondary reference]

• Type: Bombax ceiba L.

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 357, 358 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Bombacaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 197-198 [secondary reference]

Bayer, C. & Kubitzki, K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2002), Malvaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 5: 272 [secondary reference]

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

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 112 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Salmalia Schott & Endl. legitimate pro parte taxonomic synonym: Gossampinus Schott & Endl. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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