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

• Type: "In planitiebus argilloso-arenosis paulo salinis deserti juxta flumen Murray, ubi primo reperit cl. H. Behr. M.D."

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]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3: 5 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 221 [secondary reference]

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

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 137, 231 [secondary reference]

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

common name: Australian Boxthorn [n/a]

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

common name: Australian Boxthorn [n/a]

Haegi, L.A.R. (1976), Taxonomic account of Lycium (Solanaceae) in Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 24(5): 671-674 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Mueller, Murray Scrub, s.d. (MEL 501790!)"

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 586-587 [secondary reference]

common name: Water Bush [n/a] common name: Australian Boxthorn [n/a]

Haegi, L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Datura, Lycium. Flora of Central Australia: 321, Fig. 422A-D [secondary reference]

common name: Australian boxthorn [n/a]

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: 64, Fig. 23E-F, Map 64 [secondary reference]

common name: Australian Boxthorn [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, NSW, Vic

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 148 [secondary reference]

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

common name: Australian Boxthorn [n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Solanaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 362, Fig. 70c [secondary reference]

common name: Australian Box-thorn [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Lycium australe F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Lycium australe F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud.

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, NSW, Vic

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