Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 183 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in India utraque."

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

Brown, R. in Britten, J. (1906), Plantae introductae vicinitatis Portus Jackson, in Introduced Plants at Sydney, 1802-4. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 44: 235 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (September 1928), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 1125 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Physalis peruviana L. legitimate by Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 447

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): 156-157 [secondary reference]

Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Solanaceae. Flora of Australia 29: 183, Map 195 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), ChI (doubtfully naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (formerly naturalised)

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 148 [secondary reference]

Barker, R.M. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Solanaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 340 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Physalis minima L. legitimate by Baker, E.G. in Andrews, C.W. (1900), Gamopetalae. A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): 183

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 537 [secondary reference]

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

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