Richard, L.C.M. & Jussieu, A.L. in Candolle, A.P. de (1816), Essai Sur les Proprietes Medicales des Plantes Edn. 2: 192 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Gesneria L.

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 534 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cyrtandraceae Jack legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 98 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 8, 229 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 411 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 960-963, Fig. 6-25 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Gesneriaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 468 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Gesneriaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 550 [secondary reference]

Takhtajan, A.L. (1997), Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: 453-545, 458-459 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Gesneriaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 541 [secondary reference]

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003), An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 420 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 223 [secondary reference]

Weber, A. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Gesneriaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 7: 63-158, Figs. 9-18 [secondary reference]

Thorne, R.F. & Reveal, J.L. (2007), An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida ("Angiospermae"). Botanical Review 73(2): 137 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Belloniaceae Martinov legitimate taxonomic synonym: Didymocarpaceae D.Don legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyrtandraceae Jack legitimate taxonomic synonym: Besleriaceae Raf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ramondaceae Godr. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Gesnerieae Rich. & Juss. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, Vic

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 357, 937 [secondary reference]

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009), An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161(2): 117 [secondary reference]

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