Mueller, F.J.H. von (1864), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 4(29): 145 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Acomis macra F.Muell.

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 591 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 82 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1893), Notes on the limits of the genus Humea. The Victorian Naturalist 9(9): 144 [basionym]

basionym of: Humea sect. Acomis (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 193 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 268 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 8, 234 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: From the Greek a (not) and kome (hair), referring to the abasence of the pappus.

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 70 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 544 [secondary reference]

Anderberg, A.A. (1991), Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae). Opera Botanica 104: 123 [secondary reference]

Brown, E.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Acomis. Flora of New South Wales 3: 254 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Paul G. (7 September 1992), A new species of Acomis from the Northern Territory and a new combination in the genus Thiseltonia (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae). Nuytsia 8(3): 480 [secondary reference]

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: 252 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 9 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Humea sect. Acomis (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Rutidosis sect. Acomis F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Acomis F.Muell. nom. inval., pro syn.

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld, NSW

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