Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 708 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 317 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 307 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: Greek spartos and spartion, name of some shrub, from whose flexible branches ropes were twisted.

Green, M.L. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species. Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists: 174 [secondary reference]

• Type: Spartium junceum L.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 449 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek spartos and spartion, name of some shrub, from whose flexible branches ropes were twisted"

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 810 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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