Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 453 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in America calidiore."

Bailey, F.M. (1902), The Queensland Flora 5: 1401 [secondary reference]

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

Domin, K. (1927), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 866 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Euphorbia cyathophora Murray legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 244 [secondary reference]

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

Rodd, A.N. & Pickard, J. (1983), Census of vascular flora of Lord Howe Island. Cunninghamia 1: 276 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 411, 414, Fig. 65L [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 30 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5: 10 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 605, Fig. 183D, 184H, 185H, 186H [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 275-276 APC [secondary reference]

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

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 237 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Euphorbia cyathophora Murray legitimate by Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 116

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Euphorbia cyathophora Murray legitimate by Rodd, A.N. & Pickard, J. (1983), Census of vascular flora of Lord Howe Island. Cunninghamia 1: 276

Thomson, B.G. in Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Euphorbia. Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 217, Fig. 72 [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 102 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 183 [unsourced misapplied]

misapplied to: Euphorbia cyathophora Murray legitimate

Yang, Y., Riina, R, Morawetz, J.J., Haevermans, T., Aubriot, X. & Berry, P.E. (2012), Molecular phylogenetics and classification of Euphorbia subgenus Chamaesyce (Euphorbiaceae). Taxon 61(4): 785 [secondary reference]

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