Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1014 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 444 [secondary reference]

Müller Argoviensis, J. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1866), Euphorbiaceae (p.p.). Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 15(2): 235 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 19 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 33 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 474 [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: 453 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Andrachne telephioides L.

Pax, F.A. & Hoffmann, K. in Engler, H.G.A. (1922), Das Pflanzenreich 81: 169-179 [secondary reference]

Vorontsova, M.S. & Hoffmann, P. (2008), A phylogenetic classification of tribe Poranthereae (Phyllanthaceae, Euphorbiaceae sensu lato). Kew Bulletin 63(1): 55-56 [secondary reference]

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