Cassini, A.H.G. de (February 1817), Aperçu des genres nouveaux formés dans la famille des Synanthérées: troisième fascicule. Bulletin des Sciences par la Societe Philomatique de Paris 1817: 31 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Cassini, A.H.G. de in Cuvier, F. (ed.) (1817), Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles Edn. 2, 7: 384 [secondary reference]

• Type: Centratherum punctatum Cass.

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 460 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 77 [secondary reference]

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

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 257 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 86, 239 [secondary reference]

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

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 502 [secondary reference]

Porteners, M.F. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Centratherum. Flora of New South Wales 3: 147 [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: 160-161 [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: - [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised)

Ghafoor, A. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Subfam. Cichorioideae Trib. 3. Vernonieae. Flora of Australia 37: 177 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "from Greek kentron (spur) and ather (barb), because the pappus has stiff bristles."

Loeuille, B., Semir, J. & Pirani, J.R. (2019), A synopsis of Lychnophorinae (Asteraceae: Vernonieae). Phytotaxa 398: 27-28 APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Ampherephis Kunth legitimate

• APC Dist.: Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised)

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