Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1052 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 471 [secondary reference]

Hooker, J.D. (13 January 1853), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae 1(3): 226 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 22 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Freirea Gaudich. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 505 [secondary reference]

common name: Pellitory [n/a]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 1: 637 [secondary reference]

• Type: Parietaria officinalis L.

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 157 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: Latin paries, a wall: some species grow on old walls.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 261 [secondary reference]

common name: Pellitory [n/a]

• Etymology: "Latin paries, a wall; some species grow on old walls."

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 302 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 640 [secondary reference]

common name: Pellitory [n/a]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 199 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 209 [secondary reference]

Womersley, J.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Urticaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 17 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Urticaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 64, 66 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Urticaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 71 [secondary reference]

Chew, W.-L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1989), Urticaceae. Flora of Australia 3: 91-92 APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Freirea Gaudich. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, LHI, NI, ACT, Vic, Tas

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Urticaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 351-352 [secondary reference]

Friis, I. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Urticaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 627 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 70 [secondary reference]

Gebauer, R. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Parietaria. Flora of Victoria 3: 87 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Urticaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 351-352 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 931 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 634 [secondary reference]

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