Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 641 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 289 [secondary reference]

Adanson, M. (1763), Familles des Plantes 2: 421 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Carrichtera Adans. nom. rej.

Candolle, A.P. de (1821), Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturale 2: 640, 641 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Vella pseudocytisus L.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 380 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From a Gallic word used by Galen and said to mean Cress."

Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. in Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. (ed.) (1979), Index Nominum Genericorum 1: 296 [secondary reference]

Al-Shehbaz, I.A. (September 2012), A generic and tribal synopsis of the Brassicaceae (Cruciferae). Taxon 61(5): 938 [secondary reference]

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