Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 639 (err. typ. 939) [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 286 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 480 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 548 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Dilivaria Comm. ex A.Juss. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 99 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Dilivaria Comm. ex A.Juss. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 374 [secondary reference]

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: 170 [secondary reference]

• Type: Acanthus mollis L.

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 539 [secondary reference]

Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. in Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. (ed.) (1979), Index Nominum Genericorum 1: 539 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Dilivaria Comm. ex A.Juss. legitimate

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 963, 965 [secondary reference]

Barker, R.M. (12 September 1986), A taxonomic revision of Australian Acanthaceae. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 9: 64-75 APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Dilivaria Comm. ex A.Juss. legitimate

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

Barker, R.M. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Acanthaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 844 [secondary reference]

Jarvis, C.E., Barrie, F.R., Allan, D.M. & Reveal, J.L. (1993), A List of Linnaean Generic Names and their Types. Regnum Vegetabile 127: 14 [secondary reference]

• Type: "A. mollis L. - Lectotype [sic] (designated here by Brummitt) Herb. Clifford: 326, Acanthus No. 1(BM)."

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Acanthaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 164 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 8 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 6 [secondary reference]

Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (2010), Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Edn. 6: - [secondary reference]

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