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• Type: "Habitat in Europae cultis"

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Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 473 [secondary reference]

common name: Sun Spurge [n/a]

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Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 355 [secondary reference]

common name: Sun Spurge [n/a]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 509 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 210 [secondary reference]

common name: Sun Spurge [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 632 [secondary reference]

common name: Sun Spurge [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 116 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 410, 414, Fig. 65I [secondary reference]

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common name: Sun Spurge [n/a]

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Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 60, Fig. 9d APC [secondary reference]

common name: Sun Spurge [n/a]

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

James, T.A. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 425 [secondary reference]

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common name: Sun Spurge [n/a]

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