Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 381 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 179 [secondary reference]

Heward, R. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1841), Biographical sketch of the late Allan Cunningham. The Journal of Botany 4: 249 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 276 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 42 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Caesalpinia L. legitimate

Britton, N.L. (1918), Flora of Bermuda: 173 [secondary reference]

• Type: Guilandina bonduc L.

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 191 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Caesalpinia L. legitimate

George, A.S. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Caesalpinia. Flora of Australia 12: 59 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Caesalpinia L. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Caesalpinia L. legitimate

Gagnon, E., Bruneau, A., Hughes, C.E., de Queiroz, L.P. & Lewis, G.P. (2016), A new generic system for the pantropical Caesalpinia group (Leguminosae). Phytokeys 71: 61, 64-65 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Bonduc Mill. legitimate

• Etymology: "Named by Linnaeus for Melchior Wieland (1515–1589), Prussian naturalist, traveller and scholar from Königsberg, who settled in Italy and italianised his name to ‘Guilandini’, or Guilandinus in Latin; he was sent to the Levant, Asia and Africa (1559–1560), was captured by pirates and finally ransomed by Gabriele Falloppio."

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