Adanson, M. (1763), Familles des Plantes 2: 99, 612 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Torilis leptophylla (L.) Reichb.

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 442 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "A diminutive of Tordylium, another genus of Umbelliferae."

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 660 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "A diminutive of Tordylium, another genus of Umbelliferae."

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 262 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 251 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 67 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Apiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 246 [secondary reference]

Powell, J.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Apiaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 3: 98 [secondary reference]

Duretto, M.F. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Apiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 272 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 863 [secondary reference]

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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