Rosaceae Juss.
Cotoneaster Medik. , legitimate, scientific
Medikus, F.K. (1789), Philosophische Botanik 1: 154 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: Mespilus cotoneaster L.
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1972), Flora of the Sydney Region Edn. 2: 261 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 186 [secondary reference]
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Rosaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 239 [secondary reference]
  • Text: "The following species [seven species listed in text] are widely cultivated and often persist in old gardens, around old farm areas etc., and may appear to be naturalized. Sometimes young plants do come up but the species do not appear to be spread far."
Harden, G.J. & Rodd, A.N. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Malaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 543 [secondary reference]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 164 [secondary reference]
Jeanes, J.A. & Jobson, P.C. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Rosaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 577-578 [secondary reference]
Harden, G.J. & Rodd, A.N. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Malaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 543 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 859 [secondary reference]
Kalkman, C. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Rosaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 6: 380 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 223 [secondary reference]