Jussieu, A.L. de (4 August 1789), Genera Plantarum: 186 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 546 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 84 [secondary reference]

Johnston, J.R. (1903), Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: 280 [secondary reference]

• Type: Flaveria chilensis J.Gmelin

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 272 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 122 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 604 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Latin flavus, yellow, because F. contrayerva, Pers., of tropical America, yields a yellow dye."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 877 [secondary reference]

Powell, A.M. (1978), Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 65: 590-636 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 77 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Compositae (Asteraceae) - most genera. Flora of Central Australia: 383 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 564 [secondary reference]

Lawrence, M.E. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Acanthospermum - Gnaphalium. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 945 [secondary reference]

Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Flaveria. Flora of New South Wales 3: 282 [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: 422 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 340 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT, SA, Qld (naturalised), NSW

Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Flaveria. Flora of Australia 37: 484 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "from the Latin flavus (yellow), in reference to the corolla colour."

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