Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 451 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(J.M.T.D.) v.v."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 6, 16 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (May 1854), First general report of the Government Botanist, Dr. F. Muller, on the vegetation of the colony of Victoria, in Australia (Continued). Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 6: 153 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 371 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 85 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 90 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 131 [secondary reference]

Maiden, J.H. (1904), The Flora of Norfolk Island. Part i. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(4): 710 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 210 [secondary reference]

alternative name: Erythraea spicata (L.) Pers. legitimate common name: Centaury [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 337, Fig. 317 [secondary reference]

common name: Australian Centaury [n/a]

Laing, R.M. (1915), A revised list of the Norfolk Island flora, with some notes on the species. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 47: 34 [secondary reference]

Druce, G.C. (1917), Nomenclatorial Notes: chiefly African and Australian. The Botanical Exchange Club and Society of the British Isles Report for 1916, Suppl. 2: 613 [basionym]

basionym of: Centaurium australe (R.Br.) Druce legitimate

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 458 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (September 1928), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 1073 [basionym]

basionym of: Erythraea spicata var. australis (R.Br.) Domin legitimate

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 691, Fig. 977 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 259 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Centaurium spicatum (L.) Fritsch ex Janch. legitimate

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 479 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Centaurium australe (R.Br.) Druce legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 131 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Centaurium spicatum (L.) Fritsch ex Janch. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gentianaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 274 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Centaurium spicatum (L.) Fritsch ex Janch. legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Gentianaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 291 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Centaurium spicatum (L.) Fritsch ex Janch. legitimate

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 274 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Centaurium tenuiflorum (Hoffmanns. & Link) Fritsch legitimate by Maiden, J.H. (1904), The Flora of Norfolk Island. Part i. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(4): 710

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Centaurium tenuiflorum (Hoffmanns. & Link) Fritsch legitimate by Laing, R.M. (1915), A revised list of the Norfolk Island flora, with some notes on the species. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 47: 34

Adams, L.G. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Gentianaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 80 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Centaurium spicatum (L.) Fritsch ex Janch. legitimate

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Gentianaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 313 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Centaurium spicatum (L.) Fritsch ex Janch. legitimate

Mansion, G. (2004), A new classification of the polyphyletic genus Centaurium Hill (Chironiinae - Gentianaceae): description of the New-World endemic Zeltnera, and reinstatement of Gyrandra Griseb., and Schenkia Griseb. Taxon 53(3): 725 [basionym]

basionym of: Schenkia australis (R.Br.) G.Mans. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Schenkia australis (R.Br.) G.Mans. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Centaurium tenuiflorum (Hoffmanns. & Link) Fritsch legitimate by Maiden, J.H. (1904), The Flora of Norfolk Island. Part i. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(4): 710

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Centaurium tenuiflorum (Hoffmanns. & Link) Fritsch legitimate by Laing, R.M. (1915), A revised list of the Norfolk Island flora, with some notes on the species. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 47: 34

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Schenkia australis (R.Br.) G.Mans. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Centaurium tenuiflorum (Hoffmanns. & Link) Fritsch legitimate by Maiden, J.H. (1904), The Flora of Norfolk Island. Part i. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(4): 710

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Centaurium tenuiflorum (Hoffmanns. & Link) Fritsch legitimate by Laing, R.M. (1915), A revised list of the Norfolk Island flora, with some notes on the species. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 47: 34

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 49 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Schenkia australis (R.Br.) G.Mans. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Schenkia australis (R.Br.) G.Mans. legitimate

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