Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 116 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Scoparia dulcis L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 52 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 443 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 97 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 361 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 445 [secondary reference]

Barker, W.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 832 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 513 [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: 783 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

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