Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 227 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 107 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 450 [secondary reference]

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

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 208 [secondary reference]

common name: Gentian [n/a]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 3: 8 [secondary reference]

• Type: Gentiana lutea L.

Willis, J.C. (1919), A Dictionary of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Edn. 4: 472 [secondary reference]

pro parte taxonomic synonym: Oreophylax Willis nom. inval., pro syn.

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 459 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greco-Latin name of the Yellow Gentian, G. lutea, L., whose medicinal properties are said to have been discovered by Gentius, King of Illyria."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 692 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greco-Latin name of the Yellow Gentian, G. lutea, L., whose medicinal properties are said to have been discovered by Gentius, King of Illyria."

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 872, 873 [secondary reference]

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

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Gentianaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 511 [secondary reference]

Adams, L.G. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Gentianaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 88-90 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: NSW, ACT

Adams, L.G. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Gentianaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 90 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Chionogentias L.G.Adams legitimate by Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 450

Adams, L.G. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Gentianaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 82 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Blackstonia Huds. legitimate

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

misapplied to: Chionogentias L.G.Adams legitimate by Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 450

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 354 [secondary reference]

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