Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (1821), Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 7: 244 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: See proposal for conservation by A.A.Bullock, Taxon 10 (1961) 61–62. Nom. cons. vs. CARRICHTERA Adans. nom. rej. (ref. I.C.B.N. (1983) No. 2936). Index Nominum Genericorum 1 (1979) 296, and the I.C.B.N. (1983) 350 give the author of the type as Ascherson – it should be DC. – see comments above under lectotypification.

Candolle, A.P. de (1821), Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturale 2: 641 [secondary reference]

Quin, C. (1916), Journal of the Department of Agriculture South Australia 19: 380 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 250 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: Probably fanciful and without meaning, as are many of Adanson's names.

Carolin, R.C. & Hewson, H.J. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cruciferae (Brassicaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 96 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 91 [secondary reference]

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (9 December 1982), Brassicaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 252, 254 APC [secondary reference]

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

Voss, E.G. (1983), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Sydney, 1981. Regnum Vegetabile 111: 350 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Carrichtera annua (L.) Asch. (typ. cons.)

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Brassicaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 414 [secondary reference]

Retter, L. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Brassicaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 466 [secondary reference]

Appel, O. & Al-Shehbaz, I.A. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2002), Cruciferae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 5: 113 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 155 [secondary reference]

Al-Shehbaz, I.A. (September 2012), A generic and tribal synopsis of the Brassicaceae (Cruciferae). Taxon 61(5): 936 [secondary reference]

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