Chodat, R.H. (1898), Plantae Hassleriana soit enumeration des plantes recoltees au Paraguay. Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier 6, App. 1: 12 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ad ripam fluminis pr. Apa, fl. Maj., no. 162."

Beadle, N.C.W. (1976), Student's Flora of North Eastern New South Wales 3: 139 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 97 [secondary reference]

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Capparaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 225-226, map 251 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Cleome pungens Willd. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1899), The Queensland Flora 1: 55 misapplication: Cleome spinosa Jacq. legitimate by Blakely, W.F. (1923), Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 34: 116, fig. common name: Giant Spider Flower [n/a]

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

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Cleomaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 201, Fig, 30A [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cleome pungens Willd. legitimate common name: Prickly Spider-flower [n/a]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Capparaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 458 [secondary reference]

common name: Giant Spider-flower [n/a]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Capparaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 458 [secondary reference]

common name: Giant Spider-flower [n/a]

Iltis, H.H. & Cochrane, T.S. (2007), Studies in the Cleomaceae V: a new genus and ten new combinations for the Flora of North America. Novon 17: 450 [basionym]

basionym of: Tarenaya hassleriana (Chodat) Iltis legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Tarenaya hassleriana (Chodat) Iltis legitimate

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