Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 666 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 299 [secondary reference]

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): cvi. [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 34 [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, 2: 192 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Brassica oleracea L.

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 248 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: Latin name for the cabbage.

Von Gee Sun (1946), The evaluation of some Taxonomic characters of Cultivated Brassica with a key to species and varieties. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club: 244-281, 370-377 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 377 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin name for cabbage"

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 38-39 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 141 [secondary reference]

Berggren, S. (1962), Reviews of the Taxonomy of some species of the genus Brassica, based on their seeds. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift: 65-135 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 181 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 33 [secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. & Hewson, H.J. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cruciferae (Brassicaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 94 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 448, 822 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 91 [secondary reference]

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (9 December 1982), Brassicaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 236-242 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (doubtfully naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Brassicaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 204-205, 207 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Brassicaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 160 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 135 [secondary reference]

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Brassicaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 402-403 [secondary reference]

Retter, L. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Brassicaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 461-462 [secondary reference]

Appel, O. & Al-Shehbaz, I.A. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2002), Cruciferae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 5: 110 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 536 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 119-120 [secondary reference]

Al-Shehbaz, I.A. (September 2012), A generic and tribal synopsis of the Brassicaceae (Cruciferae). Taxon 61(5): 936 [secondary reference]

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