Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 423 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 193 [secondary reference]

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: 592 [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: 52 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Arenaria serpyllifolia L.

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 232 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: Latin arena, sand: alluding to the habitat.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 356 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin arena, sand; alluding to the habitat."

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 68 [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: 151 [secondary reference]

McNeill, J. (1963), Taxonomic studies in the Alsinoideae: 1. Generic & infrageneric groups. Notes from the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh: 79-156 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 166 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 72 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 275 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 97 [secondary reference]

Doust, A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Caryophyllaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 274 [secondary reference]

Bittrich, V. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Caryophyllaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 225 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 92 [secondary reference]

Adams, L.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Caryophyllaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 230-231 [secondary reference]

Doust, A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Caryophyllaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 274 [secondary reference]

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - APC [secondary reference]

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

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 64 [secondary reference]

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