Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 859 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 369 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (November 1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(79): 161 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 271 [secondary reference]

Green, M.L. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species. Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists: 181 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Carpesium cernuum L.

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 74 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 549 [secondary reference]

Brown, E.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Carpesium. Flora of New South Wales 3: 265-266 [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: 383 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 154 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Wilson, Paul G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Carpesium. Flora of Australia 37: 387 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "from the Greek karpesion, a name given to an aromatic plant."

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