Solanaceae Juss.
Datura stramonium L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 179 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Habitat in America, nunc vulgaris per Europam."
Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1857), Notes made during the recent expedition across the northern portion of Australia, under the command of Mr Surveyor Gregory. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 9: 169 [secondary reference]
Woolls, W. (1867), Notes on introduced plants occurring in the neighbourhood of Sydney. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 10: 38 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names. Key to the System of Victorian Plants 1: 535 [secondary reference]
Hamilton, A.G. (1892), On the effect which settlement in Australia has produced upon indigenous vegetation. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 26: 236 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 358 [secondary reference]
common name: Mad Apple [n/a] common name: Thorn Apple [n/a]
Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 501 [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 755 [secondary reference]
common name: Common Thorn Apple [n/a]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 403 [secondary reference]
common name: Common Thornapple [n/a]
Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 508 [secondary reference]
common name: Thorn-apple [n/a]
Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 586, Fig. 59d [secondary reference]
common name: False Castor Oil [n/a] common name: Stramonium [n/a] common name: Common Thornapple [n/a]
Haegi, L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Datura, Lycium. Flora of Central Australia: 320, Fig. 421B [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Datura tatula L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Datura stramonium var. tatula (L.) Torr. legitimate doubtful misapplication: Common thornapple [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 202 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Datura tatula L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Datura stramonium var. tatula (L.) Torr. legitimate
Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Solanaceae. Flora of Australia 29: 190, Figs 51, 52C, Map 200 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Datura tatula L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Datura stramonium var. tatula (L.) Torr. legitimate
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 148 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Datura tatula L. legitimate
Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 140 [secondary reference]
common name: Common thornapple [n/a]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Solanaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 402, Fig. 56B [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Datura tatula L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Datura stramonium var. tatula (L.) Torr. legitimate common name: False Castor Oil [n/a] common name: Stramonium [n/a] common name: Common Thornapple [n/a]
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: 529 [secondary reference]
common name: Common Thornapple [n/a]
Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Solanaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 371 [secondary reference]
common name: Common Thornapple [n/a]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 305 [secondary reference]
common name: Cranky Flower [n/a] common name: Cemetery Flower [n/a]
Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Solanaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 340, Fig. 66a [secondary reference]
common name: Common Thorn-apple [n/a]
Bean, A.R. & Henderson, R.J.F. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Solanaceae. Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens: 188 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 890 [secondary reference]
common name: Common Thornapple [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Datura stramonium L. var. stramonium legitimate taxonomic synonym: Datura tatula L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Datura inermis Jacq. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Datura stramonium var. tatula (L.) Torr. legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (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]