Presl, J.S. & Presl, C.B. (1819), Flora Cechica: 94 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Fenzl, E. in Endlicher, S.F.L., Fenzl, E., Bentham, G. & Schott, H.W. (April 1837), Paronychieae. Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in Sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus liber baro de Hügel: 9 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (18 September 1854), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the colony of Victoria. Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Victoria 1: 10 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 207 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 161-162 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Lepigonum Wahlb. nom. superfl.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 27 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 48 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 232 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: From Spergula.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 356 [secondary reference]

common name: Sandspurry [n/a]

• Etymology: "From Spergula"

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 71 [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: 152 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 142-143 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 74-75 [secondary reference]

Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. in Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. (ed.) (1979), Index Nominum Genericorum 2: 960 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Lepigonum Wahlb. nom. superfl.

Carolin, R.C. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Caryophyllaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 46 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 98 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Caryophyllaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 115 [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), Caryophyllaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 109 [secondary reference]

Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M., Chaloner, W.G., Demoulin, V., Grolle, R., Hawkesworth, D.L., Nicolson, D.H., Silva, P.C., Stafleu, F.A., Voss, E.G. & McNeill, J. (ed.) (1988), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Berlin, 1988. Regnum Vegetabile 118: 196 [secondary reference]

• Type: Spergularia rubra (L.) Presl & C.Presl, typ. cons.

Doust, A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Caryophyllaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 263-264 [secondary reference]

Bittrich, V. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Caryophyllaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 220-221 [secondary reference]

Adams, L.G. & West, J.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Spergularia. Flora of Victoria 3: 257-258 [secondary reference]

Doust, A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Caryophyllaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 263 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 552 [secondary reference]

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [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: 811 [secondary reference]

Adams, L.G., West, J.G. & Cowley, K.J. (22 October 2008), Revision of Spergularia (Caryophyllaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 21: 254, 256 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Arenaria subg. Spergularia Pers. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Arenaria sect. Lepigonum Fr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lepigonum Wahlb. nom. superfl.

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

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