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: 173 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Swan River, Drummond."

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 574 [basionym]

basionym of: Calocephalus drummondii (A.Gray) Benth. legitimate

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 352 [basionym]

basionym of: Leucophyta drummondii (A.Gray) Kuntze legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym: Calocephalus drummondii (A.Gray) Benth. 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): 356 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Drummond s.n. Sw. riv. s. dat. (K) POSSIBLE ISOLECTOTYPES: Drummond 359, West Australia, s. dat. (BM, GH, MEL 543273, P - 2 sheets). REMAINING SYNTYPE AND ISOSYNTYPE: Drummond 68, Swan River, N. Holland., s. dat. (K, mounted with lectotype; E, ex herb. GL).

nomenclatural synonym: Calocephalus drummondii (A.Gray) Benth. legitimate

Anderberg, A.A. (1991), Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae). Opera Botanica 104: 131 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Calocephalus drummondii (A.Gray) Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Calocephalus stowardii S.Moore legitimate

Short, P.S. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Blennospora. Flora of Victoria 4: 809, Fig. 162c [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Calocephalus drummondii (A.Gray) Benth. legitimate common name: Dwarf Beauty-heads [n/a]

Keighery, G.J. (6 December 2002), A new species of Blennospora (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) from the Swan and Scott Coastal Plains of Western Australia. Nuytsia 15(1): 35, fig. 1c [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Calocephalus drummondii (A.Gray) Benth. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Leucophyta drummondii (A.Gray) Kuntze legitimate

• 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: 166, Fig. 1A [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Calocephalus drummondii (A.Gray) Benth. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Leucophyta drummondii (A.Gray) Kuntze legitimate

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