Moench, C. (1794), Methodus Plantas Horti Botanici et Agri Marburgensis: 619 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Modiola multifida Moench, nom. illeg.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names. Key to the System of Victorian Plants 1: 531 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 58 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 377 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From the Latin modiolus, the nave of a wheel: alluding to the shape of the fruit."

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 561 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From the Latin modiolus, the nave of a wheel: alluding to the shape of the fruit."

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 82 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 207 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 254 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 86 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 144 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Malvaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 69 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. & Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Malvaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 325 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 114 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Modiola. Flora of Victoria 3: 339 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. & Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Malvaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 325 [secondary reference]

Bayer, C. & Kubitzki, K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2002), Malvaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 5: 301 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 663 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 551 [secondary reference]

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