Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 917 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Helvetia, Anglia & Europa australiori secus vias."

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 458 [secondary reference]

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Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 201 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 655, Fig. 318 [secondary reference]

common name: Star Thistle [n/a]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 936, Fig. 1245 [secondary reference]

common name: Star Thistle [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 376 [secondary reference]

common name: Star Thistle [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 379 [secondary reference]

common name: Star Thistle [n/a]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 394, Fig. 395B. (bract) [secondary reference]

common name: Star Thistle [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 721 [secondary reference]

common name: Purple Star Thistle [n/a] common name: Star Thistle [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 75 [secondary reference]

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

Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 137 [secondary reference]

common name: Star thistle [n/a]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 584, Fig. 82H [secondary reference]

common name: Star Thistle [n/a]

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: 666 [secondary reference]

common name: Star Thistle [n/a]

Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Centaurea. Flora of New South Wales 3: 325 [secondary reference]

common name: Star Thistle [n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asteraceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 681, Fig. 129m [secondary reference]

common name: Star Thistle [n/a]

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

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (doubtfully naturalised)

Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Subfam. 2. Carduoideae Trib. 1. Cardueae. Flora of Australia 37: 75-77, Fig. 5A-C, map [secondary reference]

common name: Star Thistle [n/a]

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common name: star thistle [n/a]

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