Plantaginaceae Juss.
Gratiola L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 17 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: (not designated).
Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 11 [secondary reference]
Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 435 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 97 [secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 225 [secondary reference]
common name: Brooklime [n/a]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 361 [secondary reference]
Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 3: 194 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: Gratiola officinalis L.
Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 509 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "From gratia Dei, the grace of God, a name given in the middle ages to G. officinalis, L., on account of its medicinal properties."
Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 767 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "From gratia Dei, the grace of God, a name given in the middle ages to G. officinalis, L., on account of its medicinal properties."
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 408 [secondary reference]
Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 516-517 [secondary reference]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 326 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 199 [secondary reference]
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 437 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 586 [secondary reference]
Barker, W.R. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 557 [secondary reference]
common name: Brooklimes [n/a]
Barker, W.R. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 487-488 [secondary reference]
common name: Brooklimes [n/a]
Buchanan, A.M. in Buchanan, A.M. (ed.) (1999), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania Edn. 3: 47 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 885 [secondary reference]
Fischer, E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Scrophulariaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 7: 385 [secondary reference]
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 374 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: WA, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas