Candolle, A.P. de in Guillemin, J.B.A. (1833), Genres nouveaux appartenant à la famille des Composées ou Synanthérées: Seconde décade. Archives de Botanique 2(6): 514 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: nom. cons. vs. BLUMEA Nees (1825) & BLUMEA Reich. (1828) (ref. I.C.B.N. (1983) No. 8939).

Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1836), Compositae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 5: 433 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (October 1859), Report on the Plants Collected During Mr. Babbage's Expedition into the North West Interior of South Australia in 1858. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly 3(1): 12 [basionym]

basionym of: Pluchea sect. Blumea (DC.) F.Muell. legitimate

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 524 [secondary reference]

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]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 94 [secondary reference]

Randeria, A.J. (1960), The composite genus Blumea, a taxonomic revision. Blumea 10(1): 176-317 [secondary reference]

Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. in Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. (ed.) (1979), Index Nominum Genericorum 3: 1352 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Placus Lour. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 72 [secondary reference]

Voss, E.G. (1983), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Sydney, 1981. Regnum Vegetabile 111: 418 [secondary reference]

• Type: Blumea balsamifera (L.) DC., typ. cons.

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 527 [secondary reference]

Lawrence, M.E. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Acanthospermum - Gnaphalium. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 936 [secondary reference]

Porteners, M.F. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Blumea. Flora of New South Wales 3: 200 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Orchard, A.E. (1993), Asteraceae. Flora of Australia 50: 415 [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: 181 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 79 [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: 377-378 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 110 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Pluchea sect. Blumea (DC.) F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Placus Lour. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, ChI, NT, Qld, NSW

Dunlop, C.R. & Orchard, A.E. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Blumea. Flora of Australia 37: 372 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "after Carl Ludwig Blume (1796-1862), German-born Dutch botanist, first director of the Rijksherbarium, Leiden."

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