Cassini, A.H.G. de in Cuvier, F. (ed.) (1825), Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles Edn. 2, 35: 171 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Carduus syriacus L. legitimate

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asteraceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 674, Fig. 129b [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Carduus syriacus L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Cirsium syriacum (L.) Gaertn. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Cnicus syriacus (L.) Roth legitimate common name: Syrian Thistle [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Carduus syriacus L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Cirsium syriacum (L.) Gaertn. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Cnicus syriacus (L.) Roth legitimate

• APC Comment: A Northern Hermisphere taxon recorded from Mansfield, Victoria in 1920-1921 and subsequently eradicated (A.R.Bean, pers. comm. 2007).

Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Subfam. 2. Carduoideae Trib. 1. Cardueae. Flora of Australia 37: 61, map [secondary reference]

• Type: "Recorded from Mansfield in Vic, in the summer of 1920-21. That population was presumably destroyed, and it has not been recorded in Australia since then."

nomenclatural synonym: Carduus syriacus L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Cirsium syriacum (L.) Gaertn. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Cnicus syriacus (L.) Roth legitimate common name: Syrian Thistle [n/a]

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