Aizoaceae Martinov
Tetragonia L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 480 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: (not designated).
Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 215 [secondary reference]
Murray, J.A. (1783), Commentationes Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Gottingensis 6: 13 [secondary reference]
Gaertner, J. (1791), De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum 2(3): 483 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (18 September 1854), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the colony of Victoria. Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Victoria 1: 10 [secondary reference]
Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 325 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Tetragonella Miq. legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 31 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Tetragonella Miq. legitimate
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 87 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 227 [secondary reference]
Britton, N.L. (1918), Flora of Bermuda: 125 [secondary reference]
  • Type: Tetragonia fruticosa L.
Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 220 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: Greek tetra, four; gonia, angle: alluding to the 4-angled fruit of some species.
Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 340 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Greek tetra, four; gonia, angle; alluding to the 4-angled fruit of some species"
Backer, C.A. (December 1951), Aizoaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(3): 275 [secondary reference]
Adamson, R.S. (1955), The South African Species of Aizoaceae. II. Tetragonia. Journal of South African Botany 21: 109-154 [secondary reference]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 154-155 [secondary reference]
Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 240 [secondary reference]
Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 135 [secondary reference]
Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 254 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 62 [secondary reference]
Toelken, H.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Tetragoniaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 39 [secondary reference]
Prescott, A. & Venning, J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Aizoaceae. Flora of Australia 4: 37-42 [secondary reference]
Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Aizoaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 78-79 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Highet, J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Aizoaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 193-194 [secondary reference]
Hartmann, H.E.K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Aizoaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 46 [secondary reference]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 78 [secondary reference]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Aizoaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 115 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Highet, J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Aizoaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 193 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 473 [secondary reference]
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 849 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Tetragona Murray orth. var.
  • APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT, SA (native and naturalised), Qld, NSW (native and naturalised), LHI, NI, Vic (native and naturalised), Tas