Brown, N.E. (1925), Gardeners' Chronicle. London. Series 3 78: 412 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Aptenia cordifolia (L.f.) Schwantes

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 337 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek apten, wingless; alluding to the absence of cell-wings in the expanded capsule"

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 154 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 61 [secondary reference]

Prescott, A. & Venning, J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Aizoaceae. Flora of Australia 4: 20-21 [secondary reference]

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

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Aizoaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 98, 106 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Highet, J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Aizoaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 196 [secondary reference]

Hartmann, H.E.K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Aizoaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 47 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Aizoaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 106 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Highet, J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Aizoaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 196 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 471 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 59 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Mesembryanthemum L. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Mesembryanthemum L. legitimate

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