Miller, P. (28 January 1754), The Gardeners Dictionary abridged Edn. 4, 3: - [tax. nov.]

• Type: Pereskia aculeata Miller

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 222 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 257, 258, 259, 260, 261 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Cactaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 140-141 [secondary reference]

Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Cactaceae. Flora of Australia 4: 64 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Leuenberger, B.E. (1986), Pereskia (Cactaceae). Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 41: 1-141 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Cactaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 200 [secondary reference]

Barthlott, W. & Hunt, D.R. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Cactaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 171 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Cactaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 200 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 647 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Peireskia Steud. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

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