Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 640 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 289 [secondary reference]

Ewart, A.J. & Rees, B. (1913), Contributions to the Flora of Australia, No. 20. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 26(1): 7 [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: 168 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Myagrum perfoliatum L.

Ewart, A.J. (1916), Contributions to the Flora of Australia, No. 23. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 28(2): 221 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 387 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek myagros, the name of some cruciferous plant."

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (9 December 1982), Brassicaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 296, 298 APC [secondary reference]

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

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Brassicaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 214-216 [secondary reference]

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Brassicaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 429 [secondary reference]

Appel, O. & Al-Shehbaz, I.A. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2002), Cruciferae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 5: 142-143 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 565 [secondary reference]

Al-Shehbaz, I.A. (September 2012), A generic and tribal synopsis of the Brassicaceae (Cruciferae). Taxon 61(5): 942 [secondary reference]

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