Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1187 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Borassus flabellifer L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 494 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (September 1897), Botany. Contributions to the Flora of Queensland. Queensland Agricultural Journal 1(3): 233 [secondary reference]

Beccari, O. (1914), Studio sui “Borassus" e descrizione di un genere nuovo asiatico di “Borasseae". Webbia; raccolta di scritti botanici 4(2): 294-301 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Comment: Listed by A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 430 (1991) as the parent of Borassus flabellifer L., but not known to occur in Australia outside of cultivation.

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