Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 653 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 294 [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: 190 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Lunaria annua L.

Raphael, T.D. (1955), Tasmanian garden escapes. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 89: 148 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 448 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 93 [secondary reference]

Retter, L. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Brassicaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 474 [secondary reference]

Appel, O. & Al-Shehbaz, I.A. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2002), Cruciferae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 5: 138 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 505 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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