Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 236 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 110 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1871), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 7(57): 149 [secondary reference]

Wolff, H. in Engler, H.G.A. (1910), Das Pflanzenreich 43: 36-173 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 229 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 441 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greco-Latin bupleuron, the name of some umbelliferous plant and meaning "ox-rib"."

Hitchcock, A.S. 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: 138 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Bupleurum rotundifolium L.

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 658 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greco-Latin bupleuron, the name of some umbelliferous plant and meaning "ox-rib"."

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 65 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Apiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 245 [secondary reference]

Powell, J.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Apiaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 3: 92-93 [secondary reference]

Duretto, M.F. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Apiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 263 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 128 [secondary reference]

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Bupleurum subsect. Laevia Briq. nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (formerly naturalised), NSW (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - [secondary reference]

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