Standley, P.C. (1916), Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 18: 91 [primary reference]

• Type: "Type in the U.S. National Herbarium, no. 698287, collected at the edge of a cultivated field, Sierra de Anafe, Pinar del Río, Cuba, December 21, 1911, by Percy Wilson and Brother Léon (no. 11485)."

Anderson, R.H. (8 August 1939), The naturalised flora of New South Wales (excluding Gramineae). Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 1(1): 19 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Gomphrena celosioides Mart. legitimate by Anderson, R.H. (8 August 1939), The naturalised flora of New South Wales (excluding Gramineae). Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 1(1): 19

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