Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1190 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Adansonia digitata L.

Linnaeus, C. (1764), Genera Plantarum Edn. 6: 352 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 222 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 15 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 26 [secondary reference]

Bakhuizen van den Brink, R.C. (1924), Revisio Bombacacearum. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg ser. 3, 6: 161-169 [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: 176 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Baobab Adans. legitimate

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 358 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Bombacaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 197 [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. digitata L. - Lectotype (Robyns in Dassanayake & Fosberg, Rev. Fl. Ceylon 1: 67. 1980): Herb. Linn. No. 862.1 (LINN)."

Baum, D.A. (1995), A systematic revision of Adansonia (Bombacaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 82(3): 445 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Baobab Adans. legitimate

Bayer, C. & Kubitzki, K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2002), Malvaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 5: 272 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 13 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Baobab Adans. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Baobabus Kuntze orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT

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