Forsskål, P. (1775), Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica: CXXII, 170 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1860), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 2(13): 92 [secondary reference]

Backer, C.A. (December 1949), Amaranthaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(2): 84-86 [secondary reference]

George, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Amaranthaceae (except Ptilotus). Flora of Central Australia: 77 [secondary reference]

Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M., Chaloner, W.G., Demoulin, V., Grolle, R., Hawkesworth, D.L., Nicolson, D.H., Silva, P.C., Stafleu, F.A., Voss, E.G. & McNeill, J. (ed.) (1988), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Berlin, 1988. Regnum Vegetabile 118: 194 [secondary reference]

• Type: Aerva tomentosa Forsskal (typ. cons.)

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Amaranthaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 107 [secondary reference]

Barker, R.M. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Amaranthaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 114 [secondary reference]

Townsend, C.C. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Amaranthaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 85 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000), Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1: 28 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Aerua Juss. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Ouret Adans. nom. rej.

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), CoI, NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 16 [secondary reference]

Hammer, T.A., Zhong, X., des Francs-Small, C.C., Nevill, P.G., Small, I.D. & Thiele, K.R. (11 July 2019), Resolving intergeneric relationships in the aervoid clade and the backbone of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae): Evidence from whole plastid genomes and morphology. Taxon 68(2): 306-307 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Aerua Juss. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), CoI, NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

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