Decaisne, J. (1834), Description d'un herbier de l'ile de Timor: faisant partie des collections botaniques du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Nouvelles Annales du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle 3: 414 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1836), Compositae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 5: 548 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 537-539 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Wedelia Jacq. nom. cons.

Bentham, G. & Hooker, J.D. (April 1873), Genera Plantarum 2(1): 371 [basionym]

basionym of: Wedelia sect. Wollastonia (DC. ex Decne.) Benth. & Hook.f. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 83 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Wedelia Jacq. nom. cons.

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 398 [secondary reference]

Anderberg, A.A., Baldwin, B.G., Bayer, R.G., Breitwieser, I., Jeffrey, C., Dillon, M.O., Eldenäs, P., Funk, V., Garcia-Jacas, N., Hind, D.J.N., Karis, P.O., Lack, H.W., Nesom, G., Nordenstam, B., Oberprieler, C., Panero, J.J., Puttock, C., Robinson, H., Stuessy, T.F., Susanna, A., Urtubey, E., Vogt, R., Ward, J. & Watson, L.E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Compositae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 8: 459 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 911 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Melanthera Rohr legitimate

Orchard, A.E. (25 July 2013), The Wollastonia/Melanthera/Wedelia generic complex (Asteraceae: Ecliptinae), with particular reference to Australia and Malesia. Nuytsia 23: 386 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Wedelia sect. Wollastonia (DC. ex Decne.) Benth. & Hook.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Niebuhria Neck. ex Britten nom. illeg., nom. superfl. pro parte taxonomic synonym: Niebuhria Neck. nom. inval., opera utique oppressa pro parte taxonomic synonym: Seruneum Rumph. ex Kuntze nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Orchard, A.E. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Wollastonia. Flora of Australia 37: 521 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Wedelia sect. Wollastonia (DC. ex Decne.) Benth. & Hook.f. legitimate

• Etymology: "in honour of William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828), discoverer of the elements palladium and rhodium, developer of a commercial process for refining platinum, designer of the camera lucida, early electrical batteries, and the meniscus lens."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Wedelia sect. Wollastonia (DC. ex Decne.) Benth. & Hook.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Wedelia sect. Wollastonia F.Muell. nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Niebuhria Neck. ex Britten nom. illeg., nom. superfl. pro parte taxonomic synonym: Niebuhria Neck. nom. inval., opera utique oppressa pro parte taxonomic synonym: Seruneum Rumph. ex Kuntze nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

• APC Dist.: CoI, ChI, AR, NT, Qld, NSW, LHI, NI

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