Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 446 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 205 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. in Flinders, M. (1814), General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis. A Voyage to Terra Australis 2, Appendix III: - [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 298-300 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 49 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 214 [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, 2: 580 [secondary reference]

• Type: Lythrum salicaria L.

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 401 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek lythron, gore: a name attributed to some plant by Dioscorides."

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 599 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek lythron, gore: a name attributed to some plant by Dioscorides."

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 172 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 225-226 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 262 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. (15 October 1976), A summary of the family Lythraceae in the Northern Territory (with additional comments on Australian material). Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 1(1): 58 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 630, 631 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 142 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Lythraceae. Flora of Central Australia: 234 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Lythraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 116 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Lythraceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 366 [secondary reference]

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Lythrum. Flora of Australia 18: 100-104 [secondary reference]

Highet, J. & Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Lythraceae. Flora of New South Wales 2: 199 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 323 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Peplis L. legitimate

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 200 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Lythraceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 910 [secondary reference]

Highet, J. & Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Lythraceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 234 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 661 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Peplis L. legitimate

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

Graham, S.A.T. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Lythraceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 9: 241, Fig. 82C [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 508 [secondary reference]

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