Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 671 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Asiae, Africae, Americae calidissimis."

Briquet, J.I. (1914), Decades plantarum novarum vel minus cognitarum. Annuaire de Conservatoire & du Jardin Botaniques de Geneve 17: 382 [basionym]

basionym of: Gynandropsis gynandra (L.) Briq. legitimate

Merrill, E.D. (2 June 1923), An Enumeration of Philippine Flowering Plants 2(3): 209 [basionym]

basionym of: Gynandropsis gynandra (L.) Merr. isonym

Kleinschmidt, H.E. & Johnson, R.W. (1977), Weeds of Queensland: 417 [secondary reference]

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Capparaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 226, map 252 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cleome pentaphylla L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gynandropsis pentaphylla (L.) DC. legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Cleomaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 202 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Gynandropsis gynandra (L.) Merr. isonym taxonomic synonym: Gynandropsis pentaphylla (L.) DC. legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 79 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5: 8 [secondary reference]

• Comment: Appears in square brackets and italics as an "erroneous record".

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Capparaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 260 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Capparaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 169 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cleome pentaphylla L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pedicellaria pentaphylla (L.) Schrank, Roem. & Usteri legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gynandropsis pentaphylla (L.) DC. legitimate

Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 404: 22 [secondary reference]

Pike, G.D. & Leach, G.J. (1997), Handbook of the vascular plants of Ashmore and Cartier Islands: 53-54 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pedicellaria pentaphylla (L.) Schrank, Roem. & Usteri legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cleome pentaphylla L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gynandropsis pentaphylla (L.) DC. legitimate

• APC Dist.: CoI, ChI (naturalised), AR (naturalised), NT, Qld (naturalised)

Parker, C.M. & Biggs, L.J. (1 May 2014), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2013. Nuytsia 24: 54 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Gynandropsis gynandra (L.) Briq. legitimate

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