Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1836), Compositae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 5: 219 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "in Africa Austr. orient. ad Port-Natal legit el. Drege!"

• Comment: Occurrence of this species in Australia (Tasmania) is based on misidentification of two early (1930 and 1945) collections held at HO, which actually represent Erigeron karvinskianus (pers. comm. A.M. Buchanan, HO).

Raphael, T.D. (1955), Tasmanian garden escapes. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 89: 148 [secondary reference]

Buchanan, A.M. in Buchanan, A.M. (ed.) (2009), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania: 7 [secondary reference]

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

misapplied to: Erigeron karvinskianus DC. legitimate by Raphael, T.D. (1955), Tasmanian garden escapes. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 89: 148

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Erigeron karvinskianus DC. legitimate by Buchanan, A.M. in Buchanan, A.M. (ed.) (2009), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania: 7

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 15 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Erigeron karvinskianus DC. legitimate by Raphael, T.D. (1955), Tasmanian garden escapes. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 89: 148

---