Gaertner, J. (1791), De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum 2(3): 451, t. 173, fig. 2 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Gazania rigens (L.) Gaertner

Black, J.M. (1911), Additions to the alien flora of South Australia. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 35: 60 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 77 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 580 [secondary reference]

Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Gazania. Flora of New South Wales 3: 319 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asteraceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 719 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 507 [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: 206 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 352 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (doubtfully naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (doubtfully naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Ghafoor, A. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Gazania. Flora of Australia 37: 170 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "named after Theodorus Gaza (c. 1400-1475), who translated botanical works of Theophrastus from Greek into Latin."

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