Ranunculaceae Juss.
Adonis L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 547 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: (not designated).
Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 242 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1909), Botany. Contributions to the Flora of Queensland. Queensland Agricultural Journal 23(4): 217 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 17 [secondary reference]
Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 2: 121 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: Adonis annua L.
Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 364 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Adonis, a beautiful Greek youth, beloved of Venus; in the fable he is slain by a wild boar and his blood produces a flower."
Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 149-150 [secondary reference]
Kloot, P.M. (15 December 1976), The species of Adonis L. naturalized in Australia. Muelleria 3(3): 199-207 BHL [secondary reference]
Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 126 [secondary reference]
Henshall, T.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Ranunculaceae, Menispermaceae, Nymphaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 86 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 183 [secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Ranunculaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 173 [secondary reference]
Briggs, B.G. & Makinson, R.O. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Ranunculaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 167 [secondary reference]
Tamura, M. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Ranunculaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 575 [secondary reference]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Ranunculaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 39, 41 [secondary reference]
Briggs, B.G. & Makinson, R.O. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Ranunculaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 167 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: Briefly noted as adventive in NT in the 1960s but did not persist.
Eichler, Hj., Jeanes, J.A. & Walsh, N.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2007), Ranunculaceae. Flora of Australia 2: 355 APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised), Tas (doubtfully naturalised)
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 15 [secondary reference]