Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 151 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 75 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 426 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 267 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 26 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 300 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Millspaugh, C.F. (1920), Bahama Flora: 319 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Plumbago europaea L.

Steenis, C.G.G.J. van (December 1949), Plumbaginaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(2): 109-111 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 284 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 175 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Plumbaginaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 272 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Plumbaginaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 270 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Plumbaginaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 374-375 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Plumbaginaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 150 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Plumbaginaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 130 [secondary reference]

Kubitzki, K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Plumbaginaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 527 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 104 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Plumbaginaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 374-375 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 403 [secondary reference]

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, ChI (naturalised), NT, SA (doubtfully naturalised), Qld (native and doubtfully naturalised), CSI, NI (native and naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 682 [secondary reference]

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