Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 629 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 486 [secondary reference]

Ewart, A.J. (1919), Contributions to the Flora of Australia, No. 27. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 31: 375 [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: 168 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Selago corymbosa L.

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 954 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 201 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Selaginaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 591 [secondary reference]

Fischer, E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Scrophulariaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 7: 371 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 787 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: NSW (naturalised), Vic (formerly naturalised)

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