Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 242 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 113 [secondary reference]

Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1830), Umbelliferae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 4: 214 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 376 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 63 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. in Post, T. von & Kuntze, O. (1903), Lexikon Generum Phanerogamarum: 106 [basionym]

basionym of: Caucalis sect. Daucus (L.) Kuntze legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 232 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 148, 196 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 441 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greco-Latin daucus, a name probably applied to several umbelliferous plants."

Hitchcock, A.S. 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: 139 [secondary reference]

• Type: Daucus carota L.

Buwalda, P. (December 1949), Umbelliferae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(2): 140 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 659 [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (September 1958), Addenda, corrigenda et emendanda: Umbelliferae. Flora Malesiana Series I 5: 555-557 [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: 331 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 261 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 286 [secondary reference]

Boyland, D.E. & Stanley, T.D. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Umbelliferae (Apiaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 270 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 849 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 65 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Apiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 246 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Apiaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 506 [secondary reference]

Wiecek, B.M. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Daucus. Flora of New South Wales 3: 110 [secondary reference]

Duretto, M.F. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Apiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 295 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 479 [secondary reference]

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 257 [secondary reference]

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Dancus F.Muell. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Caucalis sect. Daucus (L.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Daucus sect. Leptodaucus Thell. legitimate

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

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - [secondary reference]

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