Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 501 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europae umbrosis."

Brown, R. in Flinders, M. (1814), General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis. A Voyage to Terra Australis 2, Appendix III: - [secondary reference]

Hooker, J.D. (13 May 1856), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 1(2): 114 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 428 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 78 [secondary reference]

Tate, R. (1880), A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns of Extra-Tropical South Australia. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 3: 63 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 47 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3: 4 [secondary reference]

• Comment: Mueller refers to O. Brunfels (1530), which is a pre-Linnaean work.

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 43 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 125 [secondary reference]

common name: Avens [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 219 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 187 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Rodd, A.N. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Rosaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 536-537 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Rodd, A.N. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Rosaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 536-537 [secondary reference]

Jonsell, B. & Jarvis, C.E. (28 December 2002), Lectotypification of Linnaean names for Flora Nordica (Brassicaceae - Apiaceae). Nordic Journal of Botany 22(1): 74 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Herb. Clifford: 195, Geum 1 (BM, lectotype designated here)."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Geum magellanicum Pers. legitimate by Hooker, J.D. (1852), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae 1(1): 55

• APC Comment: Varietal rank not recognised in NSW
• APC Dist.: NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas (presumed extinct)

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