Zygophyllaceae R.Br.
Tribulus acanthococcus F.Muell. , legitimate, scientific
Mueller, F.J.H. von (18 September 1854), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the colony of Victoria. Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Victoria 1: 9 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "On the sandy, loamy, arid plains along the Murray and Murrumbidgee, towards their junction."
  • Comment: See paper by O.Seberg, Taxon 35: 262-271 (1986), which discusses the date of publication of Mueller's preprint.
Mueller, F.J.H. von (24 October 1854), Second general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the Colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 9 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the Colony of Victoria. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 8: 34 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 99 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Tribulus terrestris L. legitimate
Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 288 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Tribulus terrestris L. legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [doubtful taxonomic synonym]
doubtful taxonomic synonym of: Tribulus minutus Leichh. ex Benth. legitimate
Barker, R.M. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2013), Appendix: Zygophyllaceae. Flora of Australia 26: 584 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "Murray, 1853, F. Mueller s.n.; lecto (here chosen): MEL110978; isolecto: MEL (3 sheets); possible isolecto: MEL 79475."
Barker, R.M. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2013), Zygophyllaceae. Flora of Australia 26: 540 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Tribulus terrestris L. legitimate