Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 488 [comb. et stat. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 216 [secondary reference]

• Type: (not designated).

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1861), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 2(16): 148 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 326 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 31 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 87 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 227 [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: 159 [secondary reference]

• Type: Aizoon canariense L.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 341 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek aezoon, ever-living, a name applied by Pliny to some evergreen plant"

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 61 [secondary reference]

Toelken, H.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Aizoaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 35-36 [secondary reference]

Hartmann, H.E.K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Aizoaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 44, Fig. 3D [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Flora of Victoria 3: 106 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Vic (formerly naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 23 [secondary reference]

Klak, C., Hanáček, P. & Bruyns, P.V. (2017), Disentangling the Aizooideae: New generic concepts and a new subfamily in Aizoaceae. Taxon 66(5): 1161-1162 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Galenia L. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Galenia L. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (doubtfully naturalised)

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