Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 534 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Thespidium basiflorum (F.Muell.) F.Muell.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 79 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 263 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Asteraceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 189 [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: 388 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 854 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Thespidium. Flora of Australia 37: 418 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "named for its resemblance to the genus Thespis from SE Asia."

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

taxonomic synonym: Thespidium F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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