Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 561 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 246 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 503 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 102 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 392 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 3: 101 [secondary reference]

• Type: Ajuga reptans L.

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 150-151 [secondary reference]

common name: Bugles [n/a]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 485 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin name of a plant also called abiga and probably belonging to this genus."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 728 [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: 423 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 267 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 556 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 314 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 136 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Lamiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 384 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Lamiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 662 [secondary reference]

Jarvis, C.E., Barrie, F.R., Allan, D.M. & Reveal, J.L. (1993), A List of Linnaean Generic Names and their Types. Regnum Vegetabile 127: 16 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Type: A. reptans L. - Lectotype (designated here by Hedge): Herb. Linn. No. 721.10 (LINN)."

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Lamiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 456 APC [secondary reference]

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

Harley, R.M., Atkins, S., Budantsev, A.L., Cantino, P.D., Conn, B.J., Grayer, R., Harley, M.M., de Kok, R., Krestovskaja, T., Morales, R., Paton, A.J., Ryding, O. & Upson, T. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Labiatae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 7: 201 [secondary reference]

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

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