Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 268 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 129 [secondary reference]

Miller, P. (28 January 1754), The Gardeners Dictionary abridged Edn. 4, 1: - [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Cassine peragua L.

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 114 [secondary reference]

Jessup, L.W. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Celastraceae. Flora of Australia 22: 175-178 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cassine sect. Elaeodendron (Jacq.) T.Post & Kuntze legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Celastraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 31 [secondary reference]

James, T.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Celastraceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 33 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Celastraceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 583 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 202 [secondary reference]

Jessup, L.W. (22 April 2002), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 2 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [secondary reference]

• Comment: Genus confined to Africa.

Simmons, M.P. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Celastraceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 6: 42-43 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 158 [secondary reference]

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