Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 692 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Syria, Hispania, G. Narbonensi."

Salisbury, R.A. (1796), Prodromus Stirpium in Horto ad Chapel Allerton Vigentium: 381 [basionym]

basionym of: Malva trimestris (L.) Salisb. legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1925), List of the naturalised plants of extra-tropical Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 11(8): 77 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 113 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. & Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Malvaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 323 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. & Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Malvaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 323 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Malva trimestris (L.) Salisb. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Malva trimestris (L.) Salisb. legitimate misapplication: Lavatera mauritanica Durieu legitimate by Durieu de Maisonneuve, M.C. (1847), Revue Botanique, Recueil Mensuel 2: 436

• APC Dist.: WA (doubtfully naturalised), NSW (doubtfully naturalised)

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