Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (1810), Annales du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle 16: 156, 196, 198 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: nom. cons. (ref. I.C.B.N. (1988) No. 9457). See comments on conservation by Green, Kew Bull. (1935) 474–475.

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 456 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Aplotaxis DC. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 85 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Aplotaxis DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Haplotaxis Endl. orth. var.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 143 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Aplotaxis DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Haplotaxis Endl. orth. var.

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 276 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 81 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: Named after de Saussure, the Swiss physicist and botanist of the 18th and 18th centuries.

Rehder, A., Weatherby, C.A., Mansfield, R. & Green, M.L. (1935), Conservation of later generic homonyms. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1935(6-9): 474 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Saussurea alpina (L.) DC.

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 85 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 583 [secondary reference]

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