Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1008 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 439 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1863), A Record of the Plants collected by Mr Pemberton Walcott and Mr Maitland Brown, in the year 1861, during Mr F. Gregory's Exploring Expedition into North-West Australia. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal n. ser 17(2): 219 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 314 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 76 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 221 [secondary reference]

Green, M.L. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species. Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists: 190 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Trichosanthes anguina L.

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 108 [secondary reference]

Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 194-198 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 112 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 448 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 35 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Anguina Mill. legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 253 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 448 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 144 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 869-870 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & de Boer, H.J. (1 December 2011), A taxonomic revision of Trichosanthes L. (Cucurbitaceae) in Australia, including one new species from the Northern Territory. Austrobaileya 8(3): 366-367 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cucumeroides Gaertn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Involucraria Ser. legitimate

• Etymology: "The generic epithet Trichosanthes is derived from the Greek tricho- (hairy) and -anthus (flowered): referring to the petals, which have fimbriate margins."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cucumeroides Gaertn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Involucraria Ser. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

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