Linnaeus, C. (1759), Systema Naturae Edn. 10, 2: 1044 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Nitraria schoberi L.

Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1828), Ficoideae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 3: 456 [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: 10 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 92 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 291 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 13 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 22 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 72 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 332 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: From Greco-latin nitrum, saltpetre; on account of the saline plains in Siberia where the plant was first found.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 486 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Greco-Latin nitrum saltpetre; on account of the saline plains in Siberia where the plant was first found"

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 819, 820 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Zygophyllaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 179 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 211 [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), Zygophyllaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 490 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Nitrariaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 14 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Zygophyllaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 204 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Zygophyllum sect. Carinaria Miq. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 586 [secondary reference]

Barker, R.M. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2013), Zygophyllaceae. Flora of Australia 26: 512-513 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Zygophyllum sect. Carinaria Miq. legitimate

• Etymology: "from Latin nitrum or the Greek nitron, referring to the white crystalline salt, potassium nitrate (also known as saltpetre), of the saline plains of Asia and Northern Africa from whence the first species was described."

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