Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 333 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Flagellaria indica L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 156 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 264 [secondary reference]

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Backer, C.A. (December 1951), Flagellariaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(3): 246-248 [secondary reference]

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Evans, O.D. (1966), Flagellariaceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 24: 1-2 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1121 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 19 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Flagellariaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 90 [secondary reference]

Koch, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Flagellariaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1110 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Flagellariaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 410 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 422 [secondary reference]

Appel, O. & Bauer. C. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Flagellariaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 210, Fig. 51 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 221 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 340 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

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