Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 900 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in China, Media ad pagos."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 14 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1858), Botanical report on the north-Australian expedition under the command of A.C. Gregory Esq. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Botany 2: 150 [secondary reference]

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xlv [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 535 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Sigesbeckia gracilis DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sigesbeckia microcephala DC. legitimate

Tate, R. (1880), A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns of Extra-Tropical South Australia. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 3: 71 [secondary reference]

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

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 181 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 271 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 118, Plate XLII [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 603, Fig. 257 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1930), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 1232-1233 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Sigesbeckia gracilis DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sigesbeckia microcephala DC. legitimate

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 874-875, Fig. 1171 [secondary reference]

common name: Indian Weed [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 387 [secondary reference]

common name: Indian-weed [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 667 [secondary reference]

common name: Indian Weed [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 169 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 86 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Compositae (Asteraceae) - most genera. Flora of Central Australia: 378, Fig. 479 [secondary reference]

common name: Indian weed [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 169 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 554, Fig. 77F [secondary reference]

common name: Indian Weed [n/a]

Schulz, D.L. (1987), Gleditschia 15: 205-210 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Sigesbeckia gracilis DC. legitimate

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 399 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 302 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B., Elick, R.W. & Ford, A.J. (1999), Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs. Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs: 57 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 527 [secondary reference]

common name: Indian Weed [n/a]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. (2003), Australian tropical rain forest plants. Trees, Shrubs and Vines: Code 3412 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 84 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Sigesbeckia microcephala DC. legitimate common name: Indian Weed [n/a]

Bean, A.R. (26 February 2007), A new system for determining which plant species are indigenous in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 20(1): 20, Fig. 16 (map) [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Siegesbeckia orientalis F.Muell. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Sigesbeckia orientalis L. subsp. orientalis legitimate taxonomic synonym: Siegesbeckia microcephala DC. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Sigesbeckia microcephala DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Siegesbeckia gracilis DC. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Sigesbeckia gracilis DC. legitimate

• APC Comment: Treated as Sigesbeckia orientalis subsp. orientalis in SA, NSW and Vic.
• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT, SA, Qld, NSW, NI (naturalised), ACT, Vic, Tas (doubtfully naturalised)

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

misapplied to: Sigesbeckia australiensis D.L.Schulz legitimate by Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Compositae (Asteraceae) - most genera. Flora of Central Australia: 378, Fig. 479

Orchard, A.E. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Subfam. Asteroideae Trib. 12. Millerieae. Flora of Australia 37: 583-584, Plate 66, Fig. 86J-L, map [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Sigesbeckia gracilis DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sigesbeckia microcephala DC. legitimate common name: Sticky Beak [n/a] common name: Indian Weed [n/a]

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 22 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Sigesbeckia australiensis D.L.Schulz legitimate by Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 874-875, Fig. 1171

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Sigesbeckia australiensis D.L.Schulz legitimate by Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Compositae (Asteraceae) - most genera. Flora of Central Australia: 378, Fig. 479

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Sigesbeckia australiensis D.L.Schulz legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 169

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Sigesbeckia australiensis D.L.Schulz legitimate by Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 554, Fig. 77F

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