Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.
Gentianaceae Juss.
Cicendia Adans.
, legitimate , scientific
Adanson, M. (1763) , Familles des Plantes 2 :
503
[tax. nov.]
Type:
Cicendia filiformis (L.) Delarbre (ref. Index Nominum Genericorum 1 (1979) 368).
Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957) , Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4 :
692
[secondary reference]
Etymology:
"Recorded by Dioscorides as an ancient Tuscan name for some plant of this family."
Curtis, W.M. (1967) , Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3 :
481
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales :
131
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Microcala Hoffmanns. & Link
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987) , Gentianaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1 :
522
[secondary reference]
Brummitt, R.K. (1992) , Vascular Plant Families and Genera :
271
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Microcala Hoffmanns. & Link
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992) , Gentianaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3 :
510
[secondary reference]
Adams, L.G. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996) , Gentianaceae. Flora of Australia 28 :
74-75
APC
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Microcala Hoffmanns. & Link
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
APC Dist.:
WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999) , Gentianaceae. Flora of Victoria 4 :
311
[secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2 :
619
[secondary reference]
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008) , Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3 :
187
[secondary reference]