Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1004 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 436 [secondary reference]

Labillardière, J.J.H. de (1806), Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen 2(22): 72 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 20 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 36 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 60-61 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 478 [secondary reference]

Small, J.K. in Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), Euphorbiaceae. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 2: 454 [secondary reference]

• Type: Croton tiglium L.

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 214 [secondary reference]

Airy Shaw, H.K. (1976), New or noteworthy Euphorbiaceae. Kew Bulletin 31(2): 388-389 [secondary reference]

Airy Shaw, H.K. (November 1980), A partial synopsis of the Euphorbiaceae - Platylobeae of Australia (excluding Phyllanthus, Euphorbia and Calycopeplus). Kew Bulletin 35(3): 614-624 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 736, 738, 739 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 116 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 420-421 [secondary reference]

James, T.A. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 419-420 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 309 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Oxydectes Kuntze legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 597 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 266-267 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 210-212 [secondary reference]

James, T.A. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 419 [secondary reference]

Forster, P.I. (3 December 2003), A taxonomic revision of Croton L. (Euphorbiaceae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 6(3): 354-355 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 179-180 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 230 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eremocarpus Benth. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eremocarpus Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Oxydectes Kuntze legitimate

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

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