Gentianaceae Juss.
Cicendia Adans. , legitimate, scientific
Adanson, M. (1763), Familles des Plantes 2: 503 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: Cicendia filiformis (L.) Delarbre (ref. Index Nominum Genericorum 1 (1979) 368).
Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 692 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Recorded by Dioscorides as an ancient Tuscan name for some plant of this family."
Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 481 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 131 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Microcala Hoffmanns. & Link nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Gentianaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 522 [secondary reference]
Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 271 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Microcala Hoffmanns. & Link nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Gentianaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 510 [secondary reference]
Adams, L.G. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Gentianaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 74-75 APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Microcala Hoffmanns. & Link nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Gentianaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 311 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 619 [secondary reference]
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 187 [secondary reference]