Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 269 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 130 [secondary reference]

Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1830), Caprifoliaceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 4: 322 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 398 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 76, 142 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Tripetelus Lindl. legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 174 [secondary reference]

common name: Elder [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 236 [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: 268 [secondary reference]

• Type: Sambucus nigra L.

Ewart, A.J. (1925), Handbook of Forest Trees for Victorian Foresters: 430 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 540 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin name for the elder-tree."

Kern, J.H. & Steenis, C.G.G.J. van (December 1951), Caprifoliaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(3): 190-192 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 801 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin name for the elder-tree."

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 358 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 265 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 340 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1006, 1008, 1011 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 97 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Sambucaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 473 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Sambucaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 445 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Caprifoliaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 643 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 111 [secondary reference]

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 764 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), ACT, Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (native and naturalised)

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