Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 604 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 263 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 436 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 98 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 226 [secondary reference]

common name: Eye Bright [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 363 [secondary reference]

common name: Eye-bright [n/a]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 3: 217 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Euphrasia officinalis L.

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 513 [secondary reference]

common name: Eye-bright [n/a]

• Etymology: "From Greek euphrasia, joy, good, cheer; perhaps because E. officinalis was formerly considered a remedy for eye troubles."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 772 [secondary reference]

common name: Eye-bright [n/a]

• Etymology: "From Greek euphrasia, joy, good, cheer; perhaps because E. officinalis was formerly considered a remedy for eye troubles."

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 410 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 526-527 [secondary reference]

common name: Eyebright [n/a]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 327-329 [secondary reference]

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 216 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 951 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 199 [secondary reference]

Barker, W.R. (29 September 1982), Taxonomic studies in Euphrasia L. (Scrophulariaceae). A revised infrageneric classification, and a revision of the genus in Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 5: 1-304 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 446 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 585 [secondary reference]

Barker, W.R. (7 August 1987), Taxonomic studies in Euphrasia L. (Scrophulariaceae) V. New and rediscovered taxa, typifications, and other notes on the genus in Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 10(2): 201-221 [secondary reference]

Barker, W.R., Kiehn, M. & Vitek, E. (1988), Chromosome numbers in Australian Euphrasia (Scrophulariaceae). Pl. Syst. Evol. 158: 161-164 [secondary reference]

Barker, W.R. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 583-588 [secondary reference]

Barker, W.R. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 520 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 884 [secondary reference]

Fischer, E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Scrophulariaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 7: 423 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 327 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

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