Cassini, A.H.G. de (September 1818), Aperçu des genres nouveaux formés dans la famille des Synanthérées: neuvième fascicule. Bulletin des Sciences par la Societe Philomatique de Paris 1818: 142 [tax. nov.]

• Text: "...ayant pour type le Centaurea salmantica."

Cassini, A.H.G. de in Cuvier, F. (ed.) (1826), Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles Edn. 2, 44: 35, 38 [secondary reference]

• Text: "Notre genré Mantisalca (ou Microlonchus)...".

Cassini, A.H.G. de in Cuvier, F. (ed.) (1826), Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles Edn. 2, 44: 38 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Microlonchus Cass. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 587 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asteraceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 677, 679 [secondary reference]

Anderberg, A.A., Baldwin, B.G., Bayer, R.G., Breitwieser, I., Jeffrey, C., Dillon, M.O., Eldenäs, P., Funk, V., Garcia-Jacas, N., Hind, D.J.N., Karis, P.O., Lack, H.W., Nesom, G., Nordenstam, B., Oberprieler, C., Panero, J.J., Puttock, C., Robinson, H., Stuessy, T.F., Susanna, A., Urtubey, E., Vogt, R., Ward, J. & Watson, L.E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Compositae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 8: 141-142 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 522 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Microlonchus Cass. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

• APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised), Vic (formerly naturalised)

Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Subfam. 2. Carduoideae Trib. 1. Cardueae. Flora of Australia 37: 73 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Microlonchus Cass. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

• Etymology: "an anagram of the specific epithet of the type species, salmantica."

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