Blume, C.(K.)L. von (1826), Bijdragen tot de Flora van Nederlandsch Indie 15: 889 [tax. nov.]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asteraceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 713 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), Qld, NSW, Vic

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 81 [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: 167 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 241 [secondary reference]

Ghafoor, A. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Subfam. Cichorioideae Trib. 3. Vernonieae. Flora of Australia 37: 183 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "probably from Greek kyanos (blue) and ilium (flank), referring to the purplish margins of the involucral bracts."

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