Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 619 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 271 [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: 179 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Scrophularia nodosa L.

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 515 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 951, 953 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 201 [secondary reference]

Barker, W.R. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 573 [secondary reference]

common name: Figworts [n/a]

Fischer, E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Scrophulariaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 7: 362, Fig. 44C [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.: NSW (naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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