Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 191 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 88 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1859), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 1(4): 83 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 467 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 96 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 357 [secondary reference]

common name: Box-thorns [n/a]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 3: 168 [secondary reference]

• Type: Lycium afrum L.

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 137 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 500 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek lukion, the name of some thorny shrub believed to be a native of Lycia."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 754 [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: 402 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 507 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 319-320 [secondary reference]

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Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 869, 895 [secondary reference]

Haegi, L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Datura, Lycium. Flora of Central Australia: 320-321 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 202 [secondary reference]

Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Solanaceae. Flora of Australia 29: 63-66 APC [secondary reference]

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

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Solanaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 430 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Solanaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 530 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 254 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Solanaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 350 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Solanaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 361 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 506 [secondary reference]

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