Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 830 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Aegypto."

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Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 721 [secondary reference]

common name: Safflower [n/a]

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

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 164 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 587 [secondary reference]

common name: Safflower [n/a]

Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Carthamus. Flora of New South Wales 3: 328, pl.10 [secondary reference]

common name: Safflower [n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asteraceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 675-676, Fig. 129d [secondary reference]

common name: Safflower [n/a]

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

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

Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Subfam. 2. Carduoideae Trib. 1. Cardueae. Flora of Australia 37: 68, map [secondary reference]

common name: Safflower [n/a]

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 12 [secondary reference]

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