Synonymy
Moenchia Ehrh. in Neues Mag. Aerzte 5: 203. 1783, nom. cons., sec. Bittrich (1993c)
Notes
Three species found in western and Central Europe. While Harbaugh & al. (2010) noted that Moenchia and Holosteum were sister taxa, Greenberg & Donoghue (2011) found that Moenchia was a sister to Cerastium.