Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 927 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Sphaeranthus indicus L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 399 [secondary reference]

Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1836), Compositae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 5: 370 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 521 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 79 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 263 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 619 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Greek sphaira, sphere; anthos, flower: alluding to the globular heads."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 896 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Greek sphaira, sphere; anthos, flower: alluding to the globular heads."

Ross-Craig, S. (1962), Hooker's Icones Plantarum 36: t. 3501-3505 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Compositae (Asteraceae) - most genera. Flora of Central Australia: 394 [secondary reference]

Wilson, A.J.G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Minuria - Xanthium. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 954 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Asteraceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 184 [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: 389 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 811 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Sphaeranthos F.Muell. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld

Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Sphaeranthus. Flora of Australia 37: 421 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "from the Greek sphaera (spherical) and anthos (flower)."

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