Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 205 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not cited).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 96 [secondary reference]

Sprengel, C.P.J. (1824), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 1: 815 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 29 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Deeringia R.Br. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Plants Collected in Capricornic Western Australia, by H.S. King Esq: 3 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 397 [secondary reference]

Standley, P.C. (1917), North American Flora 21: 96 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Celosia argentea L.

Backer, C.A. (December 1949), Amaranthaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(2): 73-74 [secondary reference]

Grant, W.F. (1962), Canadian Journal of Botany 40: 1355-1364 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 266 [secondary reference]

Barker, R.M. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Amaranthaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 109-110 [secondary reference]

Townsend, C.C. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Amaranthaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 80, Fig. 8 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 164 [secondary reference]

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