Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 814 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Italia."

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 76 [secondary reference]

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

common name: Globe Thistle [n/a]

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

• APC Dist.: NSW (naturalised)

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Echinops exaltatus Schrad. legitimate by Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 76

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Echinops exaltatus Schrad. legitimate by Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Echinops. Flora of New South Wales 3: 319

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