Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 987 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 425 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1890), A Synopsis of the Queensland Flora Suppl. 3: 40 [secondary reference]

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

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 3: 340 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Ambrosia maritima L.

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 602 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greco-Latin for the food and perfume of the gods; the name was also applied by classical authors to some aromatic plants."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 873 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greco-Latin for the food and perfume of the gods; the name was also applied by classical authors to some aromatic plants."

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 374 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1025 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 71 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Franseria Cav. nom. cons.

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 552 [secondary reference]

Lander, N.S. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Asteraceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 655 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 175 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Franseria Cav. nom. cons.

Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Ambrosia. Flora of New South Wales 3: 267 [secondary reference]

common name: Ragweeds [n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asteraceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 978, 980 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 493 [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: 444, Fig. 92 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 36 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Franseria Cav. nom. cons.

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Orchard, A.E. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Trib. Heliantheae Subtrib. 7. Ambrosiinae. Flora of Australia 37: 559-560 [secondary reference]

common name: Ragweeds [n/a]

• Etymology: "from the Greek ambrosia (the food of the gods); a name used in Roman times for various aromatic plants."

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