Linnaeus, C. (1762), Species Plantarum Edn. 2, 1: 631 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Mexico."

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]

Hamilton, A.G. (1892), On the effect which settlement in Australia has produced upon indigenous vegetation. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 26: 237 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 91 [secondary reference]

common name: Ink Plant [n/a] common name: Poke Root [n/a]

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

common name: Red Ink Plant [n/a]

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 646-647 [secondary reference]

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

common name: Red Ink Plant "(because of the red dye from the fruits)" [n/a]

Backer, C.A. (December 1951), Phytolaccaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(3): 231 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 531 [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]

common name: Ink Weed [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 290 [secondary reference]

common name: Pokeweed [n/a] common name: Dye Berry [n/a] common name: Inkweed [n/a] common name: Red-ink Plant [n/a] common name: Red-ink Weed [n/a]

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: 2, Fig. 1 A, Map 1 APC [secondary reference]

common name: Inkweed [n/a]

• APC Comment: Erroneously recorded as naturalised in SA and NT in Flora of Australia 4: 2 (1984). The SA record is based on specimen from 1913, but has not been collected since.
• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (formerly naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Phytolaccaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 93, 97, Fig. 12A [secondary reference]

common name: Dyeberry [n/a] common name: Red-ink Plant [n/a] common name: Inkweed [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 74 [secondary reference]

Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 140 [secondary reference]

common name: Inkweed [n/a]

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]

common name: Inkweed [n/a] common name: Red Ink Plant [n/a]

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

common name: Inkweed [n/a]

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

common name: Inkweed [n/a]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 309 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Phytolaccaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 101-102, Fig. 21a-c [secondary reference]

common name: Red-ink Weed [n/a]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B., Elick, R.W. & Ford, A.J. (1999), Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs. Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs: 80 [secondary reference]

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

common name: Inkweed [n/a]

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

common name: Inkweed [n/a] common name: Red Ink Plant [n/a]

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

common name: Inkweed [n/a]

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 334-335, photos 12-14 [secondary reference]

common name: Red Ink Plant [n/a]

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 61 [secondary reference]

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