Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 192 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Asia, Africa?"

Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2: 547 [secondary reference]

Haegi, L.A.R. (1976), Taxonomic account of Lycium (Solanaceae) in Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 24(5): 675-677 [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: 66, Fig. 23G-H, Map 66 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Lycium chinense Mill. legitimate by Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 467

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Solanaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 431 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Solanaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 351 [secondary reference]

common name: Chinese Boxthorn [n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Solanaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 362, 364, Fig. 70e [secondary reference]

misapplication: Lycium chinense Mill. legitimate by Ewart, A.J. (1931), Flora of Victoria: 999 common name: Chinese Box-thorn [n/a]

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

pro parte misapplication: Lycium chinense Mill. legitimate by Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 467 doubtful misapplication: Lycium chinense Mill. legitimate by Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 754

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

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 78 [secondary reference]

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