Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 634 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 282 [secondary reference]

Holtze, M. (1892), Introduced plants in the Northern Territory. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 15: 3 [secondary reference]

Green, M.L. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species. Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists: 169 [secondary reference]

• Type: Sesamum indicum L.

Backer, C.A. (December 1951), Pedaliaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(3): 216-218 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 967 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Pedaliaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 468-469 [secondary reference]

Ihlenfeldt, H.-D. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Pedaliaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 7: 320 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 791 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: NT (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Bedigian, D. (2015), Systematics and evolution in Sesamum L. (Pedaliaceae), part 1: Evidence regarding the origin of sesame and its closest relatives. Webbia; raccolta di scritti botanici 70(1): 2-3 [secondary reference]

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