Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Descriptions of two new species of plants. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 4: 112 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In the vicinity of the River Finke, MacDonnell Ranges (Rev. H. Kempe)."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 78 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 590, Fig. 250 B [secondary reference]

Davis, G.L. (26 September 1952), Revision of the genus Calotis. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 77(3-4): 157-158 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Mission Station, Finke River, 1879, H. Kempe (MEL)."

Davis, G.L. in Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 860, Fig. 1159, B [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 263 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Compositae (Asteraceae) - most genera. Flora of Central Australia: 372, Fig. 470A [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 10 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: NT, SA

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