Duby, J.E. (1828), Aug. Pyrami de Candolle Botanicon Gallicum, pars prima Plantas Vascullares 1: 293 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Carthamus lanatus L. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names. Key to the System of Victorian Plants 1: 534 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Carthamus lanatus L. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 656 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Carthamus lanatus L. legitimate

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 937 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Carthamus lanatus L. legitimate

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 380 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Carthamus lanatus L. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Carthamus lanatus L. legitimate

Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Subfam. 2. Carduoideae Trib. 1. Cardueae. Flora of Australia 37: 69 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Carthamus lanatus L. legitimate

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