Loureiro, J. de (1790), Flora Cochinchinensis Edn. 1, 2: 492 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Centipeda orbicularis Lour.

Persoon, C.H. (September 1807), Synopsis plantarum, seu enchiridium botanicum, complectens enumerationem systematicam specierum 2(2): 464 [basionym]

basionym of: Cotula subg. Centipeda (Lour.) Pers. legitimate

Braun, A.K.H. & Ascherson, P.F.A. (1867), Anno 1867. Index Seminum in Horto Botanici Berolinensi: - [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 552 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Myriogyne Less. legitimate

Baillon, H.E. (1882), Histoire des Plantes 8: 284, adnot. [basionym]

basionym of: Cotula sect. Centipeda (Lour.) Baill. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 84 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Myriogyne Less. legitimate pro parte taxonomic synonym: Sphaeromorphaea DC. legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 190 [alternative name]

alternative name: Myriogyne Less. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 272 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Myriogyne Less. legitimate

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 99-100, 234 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Myriogyne Less. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 607, Fig. 266 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Myriogyne Less. legitimate common name: Sneeze-weed [n/a]

• Etymology: "Latin for centipede, and so called on account of the sometimes creeping stems of C. minima."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 882 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Myriogyne Less. legitimate common name: Sneeze-weed [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]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 358 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 370 [secondary reference]

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

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Compositae (Asteraceae) - most genera. Flora of Central Australia: 381-382 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 569 [secondary reference]

Brown, E.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Asteraceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 3: 293 [secondary reference]

Lawrence, M.E. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Acanthospermum - Gnaphalium. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 940 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Centipeda. Flora of Victoria 4: 720-721 [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: 182 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 499 [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: 399-400, Fig. 79 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 165 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Cotula subg. Centipeda (Lour.) Pers. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Cotula sect. Centipeda (Lour.) Baill. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Myriogyne Less. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cotula sect. Myriogyne (Less.) Hook.f. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

Walsh, N.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Centipeda. Flora of Australia 37: 430-431 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Myriogyne Less. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sphaeromorphaea DC. legitimate

• Etymology: "from the Latin centipede (centipede) a reference to the creeping habit of the first-named species, C. orbicularis (=C. minima)."

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