Mueller, F.J.H. von (1863), A Record of the Plants collected by Mr Pemberton Walcott and Mr Maitland Brown, in the year 1861, during Mr F. Gregory's Exploring Expedition into North-West Australia. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal n. ser 17(2): 230 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 539 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Moonia Arn. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Chrysogonum L. legitimate

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: 455 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 644 [secondary reference]

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

isonym: Pentalepis F.Muell. isonym

• APC Dist.: WA, NT

Orchard, A.E. & Cross, E.W. (18 December 2012), A revision of the Australian endemic genus Pentalepis (Asteraceae: Ecliptinae). Nuytsia 22(6): 372-373 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Type: not designated. Lecto: Pentalepis trichodesmoides F.Muell., chosen by A. Cronquist (1964) according to Index Nominum Genericorum (ING) card 18249. Reference not traced. Also thus cited in published ING books."

isonym: Pentalepis F.Muell. isonym

• Etymology: "The generic name is from the Greek penta (five) and lepis (scale) referring to the single series of five bracts that make up the involucre. This is one of the characters distinguishing Pentalepis from relatives such as Eclipta, Blainvillea Cass. and Wedelia."

Orchard, A.E. & Cross, E.W. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Pentalepis. Flora of Australia 37: 504 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "from Greek penta (five) and lepis (scale), referring to the single series of 5 bracts that make up the involucre."

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