Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1010 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not cited).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 441 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (18 September 1854), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the colony of Victoria. Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Victoria 1: 17 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 221 [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, 3: 291, adnot. [secondary reference]

• Type: Cucurbita lagenaria L.

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 424 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 108 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 113 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 448 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 448 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 235-236 APC [secondary reference]

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

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