Gray, A. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1851), Characters of some Gnaphalioid Compositae of the Division Angiantheae. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 3: 98 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Blennospora drummondii A.Gray

Gray, A. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1851), Characters of some Gnaphalioid Compositae of the Division Angiantheae. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 3: 172 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 573 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Calocephalus R.Br. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 83 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Calocephalus R.Br. legitimate

Lander, N.S. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Asteraceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 662 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. (1 April 1987), A revision of Blennospora A. Gray (Compositae: Inuleae: Gnaphaliinae). Muelleria 6(5): 349-358 [secondary reference]

Anderberg, A.A. (1991), Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae). Opera Botanica 104: 130 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Blennospora. Flora of Victoria 4: 809 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 497 [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: 258 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 108 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, Vic

Short, P.S. (15 December 2016), Notes concerning the classification of species included in Calocephalus R.Br. s.lat. and Gnephosis Cass. s.lat. (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae), with descriptions of new genera and species. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 29: 164 APC [secondary reference]

misapplication: Calocephalus R.Br. legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 573

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, Vic

• Etymology: "From the Greek blennos (mucilage or slime) and spora (seed), in reference to the single-seeded fruit with a pericarp composed of a layer of cells which become mucilaginous on wetting."

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