Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 414 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: No record of this genus having been applied to Australia taxa has been found; cited by N.T.Burbidge, Dict. Austral. Pl. Gen. (1963) 85 as a synonym of SILENE L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 192 [secondary reference]

Green, M.L. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species. Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists: 155 [secondary reference]

• Type: Cucubalus baccifer L.

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