Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 643 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Persia, Syria."

Candolle, A.P. de (1821), Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturale 2: 542 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Thlaspi heterophyllum Cav. ex DC. legitimate

White, C.T. (1942), Contributions to the Queensland Flora, No. 7. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 53: 202 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 92 [secondary reference]

Hewson, H.J. (26 February 1982), The genus Lepidium L. (Brassicaceae) in Australia. Brunonia 4(2): 227-228, fig. 2 [secondary reference]

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (9 December 1982), Brassicaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 260, map 287 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (formerly naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Brassicaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 211-212, Fig. 32G [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 80 [secondary reference]

Retter, L. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Brassicaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 468 [secondary reference]

Jonsell, B. & Jarvis, C.E. (28 December 2002), Lectotypification of Linnaean names for Flora Nordica (Brassicaceae - Apiaceae). Nordic Journal of Botany 22(1): 70 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Herb. Clifford: 331, Lepidium 3 (BM, lectotype, designated here)."

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