Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 980 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 421 [secondary reference]

Müller Argoviensis, J. (1865), Euphorbiaceae: Vorläufige mittheilungen aus dem für DeCandolle's Prodromus bestimmten Manuscript über diese Familie. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 34: 180 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 21 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 36 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 480 [secondary reference]

Small, J.K. in Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), Euphorbiaceae. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 2: 458 [secondary reference]

• Type: Tragia volubilis L

Airy Shaw, H.K. (November 1980), A partial synopsis of the Euphorbiaceae - Platylobeae of Australia (excluding Phyllanthus, Euphorbia and Calycopeplus). Kew Bulletin 35(3): 690 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 739 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 118 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 421-422 [secondary reference]

James, T.A. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 409 [secondary reference]

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James, T.A. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 409 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 198 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 866 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld, NSW

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