Bentham, G. in Endlicher, S.F.L., Fenzl, E., Bentham, G. & Schott, H.W. (April 1837), Compositae. Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in Sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus liber baro de Hügel: 61 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Myriocephalus appendiculatus Benth.

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 557 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hyalolepis DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gilberta Turcz. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Antheidosorus A.Gray legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycalymma F.Muell. & Sond. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Elachopappus F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lamprochlaena F.Muell. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 82 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hyalolepis DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gilberta Turcz. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Antheidosorus A.Gray legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polycalymma F.Muell. & Sond. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Elachopappus F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lamprochlaena F.Muell. legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 189, 203 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 268 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 88 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 642 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Greek myrios, very many; kephale, head: alluding to the numerous partial heads."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 922 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 82 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Compositae (Craspedia to Actinobole). Flora of Central Australia: 390 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 544 [secondary reference]

Lander, N.S. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Asteraceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 691-692 [secondary reference]

Anderberg, A.A. (1991), Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae). Opera Botanica 104: 115 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hyalolepis DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Antheidosorus A.Gray legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lamprochlaena F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Elachopappus F.Muell. legitimate

Brown, E.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Asteraceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 3: 254 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asteraceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 767 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. (9 November 2000), Notes on Myriocephalus Benth. s. lat. (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae). Australian Systematic Botany 13(5): 733 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hyalolepis DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leptotriche Turcz. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lamprochlaena F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Elachopappus F.Muell. legitimate

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 514 [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: 273 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 566 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Hyalolepis DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leptotriche Turcz. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lamprochlaena F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Elachopappus F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Craspedia sect. Hyalolepis (DC.) Baill. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

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