Borkhausen, M.B. (1796), Archiv fur die Botanik 1: 30 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Gentiana centaurium L. legitimate

Alexander, W.B., Lane-Poole, C.E. & Herbert, D.A. (1920), Lists of the principal indigenous West Australian plants of economic importance and of naturalised aliens and weeds established in the state, with their vernacular name. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 6(1): 45 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 458, Fig. 188 [secondary reference]

common name: Common Centaury [n/a]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 691, Fig. 978 [secondary reference]

common name: Common Centaury [n/a]

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

taxonomic synonym of: Centaurium minus Garsault legitimate

Melderis, A. (1972), Taxonomic studies on the European species of the genus Centaurium Hill. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 65: 227 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym of: Centaurium erythraea Rafn 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 erythraea Rafn legitimate

Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5: 12 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Centaurium erythraea Rafn legitimate

Adams, L.G. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Gentianaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 81 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Centaurium littorale (Turner) Gilmour legitimate

Adams, L.G. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Gentianaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 78 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Centaurium erythraea Rafn legitimate

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

misapplied to: Centaurium erythraea Rafn legitimate by Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 691, Fig. 978

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