Klotzsch, J.F. in Link, J.H.F., Klotzsch, J.F. & Otto, C.F. (November 1840), Icones Plantarum Rariorum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis 1: 19, t. 8 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Asterotrichion sidoides Klotzsch (= A. discolor (Hook.) Melville, ref. R.Melville, Kew Bull. 20 (1967) 512–513).

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 187 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Plagianthus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 24 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Plagianthus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. legitimate

Melville, R. (1967), Contributions to the Flora of Australia: VII. Generic delimitation in the Plagianthus complex. Kew Bulletin 20(3): 512-513 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 86 [secondary reference]

Bayer, C. & Kubitzki, K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2002), Malvaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 5: 305-306 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Asterotrichon N.T.Burb. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Blepharanthemum Klotzsch legitimate

• APC Dist.: Tas

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 77 [secondary reference]

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