Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 232 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 108 [secondary reference]

Cavanilles, A.J. (1800), Anales de Historia Natural 2: 118 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 369 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 63 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 152, 155 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 229 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 143-144, 203 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 440 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greco-Latin eryngion, name of some prickly plant, perhaps of this genus."

Hitchcock, A.S. 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: 138 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Eryngium maritinum L.

Buwalda, P. (December 1949), Umbelliferae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(2): 126-127 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 657 [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: 334 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 252 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 284 [secondary reference]

Boyland, D.E. & Stanley, T.D. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Umbelliferae (Apiaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 266-267 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 846 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 65 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Apiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 239 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Apiaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 506 [secondary reference]

Powell, J.M. & Wiecek, B.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Eryngium. Flora of New South Wales 3: 91 [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: 46 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Type: E. maritimum L. - Lectotype (designated here by Reduron & Jarvis): Herb. Linn. No. 331.8 (LINN)."

Michael, P.W. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Eryngium. Flora of Victoria 4: 260-261 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 480 [secondary reference]

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 317 [secondary reference]

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

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

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - [secondary reference]

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