Lindley, J. (1820), The Botanical Register: Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants, Cultivated in British Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatment 6: t. 468 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Rhaphiolepis indica (L.) Lindley

• Comment: nom. et orth. cons. (ref. I.C.B.N. (1988) No. 3339). Orthography corrected by J.L.Poiret, Dict. Sci. Nat. 45 (1827) 314.

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 167 [secondary reference]

common name: The Indian Hawthorn [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1972), Flora of the Sydney Region Edn. 2: 262 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 187 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Rodd, A.N. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Malaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 545 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 164 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Rodd, A.N. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Malaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 545 [secondary reference]

Kalkman, C. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Rosaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 6: 377-378, Fig. 117C [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Raphiolepis Lindl. nom. rej.

• APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 7.4 [secondary reference]

Shaw, J.M.H. (June 2020), (2748) Proposal to conserve the name Eriobotrya against Rhaphiolepis(Rosaceae). Taxon 69(3): 620 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eriobotrya Lindl. legitimate

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