Gray, A. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1852), Characters of some South-west Australian Compositae. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 4: 271 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Cephalipterum drummondii A.Gray

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 577 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 83 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 650 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Greek kephale, head; pteron, wing: alluding to the numerous conspicuous laminae of the compound head."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 930 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Greek kephale, head; pteron, wing: alluding to the numerous conspicuous laminae of the compound head."

Short, P.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Compositae (Craspedia to Actinobole). Flora of Central Australia: 391 [secondary reference]

Anderberg, A.A. (1991), Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae). Opera Botanica 104: 105, 107 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: C. drummondii A.Gray (lectotype selected here).

Wilson, Paul G. (7 September 1992), The Classification of Australian species currently included in Helipterum and related genera (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae): Part 1. Nuytsia 8(3): 417-418 [secondary reference]

• Type: Cephalipterum drummondii A.Gray.

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: 259-260 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 166 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Cephalopterum T.Post & Kuntze orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, SA

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