Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 441 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 200 [secondary reference]

Moquin-Tandon, C.H.B.A. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1849), Phytolacceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 13(2): 32 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 411 [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, 2: 26 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Phytolacca americana L.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 334 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek phyton, plant and Neo-latin lacca (Persian lak) the gum or resin called lac and obtained from certain Asiatic trees; alluding to the red dye from some species of Phytolacca."

Backer, C.A. (December 1951), Phytolaccaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(3): 230-232 [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: 160 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 248, 982, 983 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 173 [secondary reference]

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Phytolaccaceae. Flora of Australia 4: 1-2 APC [secondary reference]

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

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Phytolaccaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 93 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Phytolaccaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 76 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Phytolaccaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 176 [secondary reference]

Rohwer, J.G. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Phytolaccaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 512, Fig. 108 A-C [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 72-73 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Phytolaccaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 101 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000), Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1: 23 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Phytolaccaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 176 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 790 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 396 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 663 [secondary reference]

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