Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 182 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 85 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 447 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 466 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 95 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 357 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 3: 156 [secondary reference]

• Type: Physalis alkekengi L.

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 136-137 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 499 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Greek physallis, a bladder, also a plant with a bladdery fruit-covering, perhaps the European Ph. Alkekengi, L., or Winter Cherry."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 752 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 400 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 895 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 584-585 [secondary reference]

common name: Tomato Weed [n/a] common name: Wild Tomato [n/a] common name: Cape Gooseberry [n/a] common name: Wild Gooseberry [n/a] common name: Prairie Ground Cherry [n/a] common name: Ground-cherries [n/a]

• Comment: A perennial and an annual form described.

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 203 [secondary reference]

Symon, D.E. (2 June 1981), The Solanaceous genera, Browallia, Capsicum, Cestrum, Cyphomandra, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nierembergia, Physalis, Petunia, Salpichroa and Withania, naturalised in Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 3 (2): 149-159 [secondary reference]

Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Solanaceae. Flora of Australia 29: 179-184 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Solanaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 427-428 [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), Solanaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 531-532 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Solanaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 368 [secondary reference]

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Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 518 [secondary reference]

Bean, A.R. (June 2006), Physalis (Solanaceae) in Australia - nomenclature and identification. Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 127: 7-8 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 662 [secondary reference]

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