Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 87 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Montia fontana L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 38 [secondary reference]

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xcv. [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 177 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 27 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 350 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After Giuseppe Monti (1682-1760), Professor of Botany at Bologna."

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 75 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 160 [secondary reference]

Geesink, R. (1971), Portulacaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(1): 125-126 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 79 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 268 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 177 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Neopaxia O.Nilsson legitimate

West, J.G. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Portulacaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 101 [secondary reference]

West, J.G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Portulacaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 184-185 [secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Portulacaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 554 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Portulacaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 221 [secondary reference]

West, J.G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Portulacaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 184 [secondary reference]

Heenan, P.B. (2007), New combinations in Montia (Portulacaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 45: 438 APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Paxia O.Nilsson nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Neopaxia O.Nilsson legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas, HI, MI

State Herbarium of South Australia (2007), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

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

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 556 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Neopaxia O.Nilsson legitimate

Nyffeler, R. & Eggli, U. (2010), Disintegrating Portulacaceae: A new familial classification of the suborder Portulacineae (Caryophyllales) based on molecular and morphological data. Taxon 59(1): 235 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Neopaxia O.Nilsson legitimate

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