Miers, J. (1868), The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 4 2: 124 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 474 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald, 1775-1860, officer in the British fleet during the Napoleonic wars; organised and commanded the Chilian fleet in the war of independence, 1818-21; admiral in the British fleet, 1851."

Johnston, I.M. (1928), I. Studies in the Boraginaceae - VII. Contributions of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 81: 25 [secondary reference]

• Type: Cochranea chilense Molina

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 107 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Heliotropium L. legitimate

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