Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1838), Compositae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 6: 602 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "in Nova Cambria australi ad ripas herbosas flum. Hastings prope Port Macquarie legit cl. Cunningham."

Bean, A.R. (23 November 2009), The identity of Centaurea riparia DC. (Asteraceae). Austrobaileya 8(1): 97 [basionym]

basionym of: Centratherum riparium (A.Cunn. ex DC.) A.R.Bean legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Centratherum riparium (A.Cunn. ex DC.) A.R.Bean legitimate

Ghafoor, A. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Subfam. Cichorioideae Trib. 3. Vernonieae. Flora of Australia 37: 179 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Centratherum riparium (A.Cunn. ex DC.) A.R.Bean legitimate

Loeuille, B., Semir, J. & Pirani, J.R. (2019), A synopsis of Lychnophorinae (Asteraceae: Vernonieae). Phytotaxa 398: 29 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Centratherum punctatum Cass. legitimate

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