Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 587 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 255 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 73 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 388 [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: 165 [secondary reference]

• Type: Molucella lavis L.

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 419 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 136 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Lamiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 391 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Lamiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 640 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Lamiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 435 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (doubtfully naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised)

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 275 [secondary reference]

Harley, R.M., Atkins, S., Budantsev, A.L., Cantino, P.D., Conn, B.J., Grayer, R., Harley, M.M., de Kok, R., Krestovskaja, T., Morales, R., Paton, A.J., Ryding, O. & Upson, T. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Labiatae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 7: 227 [secondary reference]

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [secondary reference]

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Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 552 [secondary reference]

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