Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1035 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 457 [secondary reference]

• Type: (not designated).

Baillon, H.E. (1866), Euphorbiacees Australiennes. Adansonia 6: 322 [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: 460 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Mercurialis perennis L.

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 614 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 539 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

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