Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Centaurea benedicta
Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
Centaurea benedicta (L.) L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1763), Species Plantarum Edn. 2, 2: 1296 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Cnicus benedictus L. legitimate
Steudel, E.G. von (1821), Phanerogams. Nomenclator Botanicus Edn. 1, 1: 151 BHL [secondary reference]
Garcia-Jacas, N., Uysal, T., Romashchenko, K., Suarez-Santiago, V.N., Ertugrul, K. & Susanna, A. (2006), Centaurea revisited: a molecular survey of the Jacea group. Annals of Botany new ser., 98: 749 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Cnicus benedictus L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Carbeni benedicta (L.) Adans. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Carbena benedicta Ewart orth. var.
  • APC Dist.: Qld (formerly naturalised), NSW (formerly naturalised), Vic (formerly naturalised)
Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Subfam. 2. Carduoideae Trib. 1. Cardueae. Flora of Australia 37: 79, map [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Cnicus benedictus L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Carbeni benedicta (L.) Adans. legitimate common name: Blessed Thistle [n/a]