Cassini, A.H.G. de in Cuvier, F. (ed.) (1823), Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles Edn. 2, 26: 159 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ces échantillons, recueillis sur la côte occidentale de la Nouvelle-Hollande, prés le port du Roi George, et sur la côte australe, prés le détroit de Bass ..."

Lessing, C.F. (1832), Synopsis Generum Compositarum: 271 [secondary reference]

Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1838), Compositae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 6: 152 [secondary reference]

Steetz, J. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1845), Compositae. Plantae Preissianae 1(3): 442 [secondary reference]

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]

Hooker, J.D. (15 February 1859), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(8): 196-197 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (October 1859), Report on the Plants Collected During Mr. Babbage's Expedition into the North West Interior of South Australia in 1858. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly 3(1): 13 [basionym]

basionym of: Calocephalus brownii (Cass.) F.Muell. legitimate

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 574 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Calocephalus brownii (Cass.) F.Muell. legitimate

Anderberg, A.A. (1991), Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae). Opera Botanica 104: 125 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Calocephalus brownii (Cass.) F.Muell. legitimate

Short, P.S. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Leucophyta. Flora of Victoria 4: 799, Fig. 159c [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Calocephalus brownii (Cass.) F.Muell. legitimate common name: Cushion Bush [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 513 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Leucophyta brownei Less. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Leucophyta brownii Cass. var. brownii legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Calocephalus brownii (Cass.) F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leucophyta brownii var. virescens Steetz legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leucophyta brownii var. candidissima Steetz legitimate taxonomic synonym: Calocephalus brownii F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud.

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, Vic, Tas

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 46, 48-49, photos 4-7 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Calocephalus brownii (Cass.) F.Muell. legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 11, 18 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Calocephalus brownii (Cass.) F.Muell. legitimate

Short, P.S. (15 December 2016), Notes concerning the classification of species included in Calocephalus R.Br. s.lat. and Gnephosis Cass. s.lat. (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae), with descriptions of new genera and species. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 29: 208-210, Fig. 9 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "(here designated): détr. de Bass [Bass Strait], Anon. (P 00715976)."

taxonomic synonym: Leucophyta brownii var. virescens Steetz legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leucophyta brownii var. candidissima Steetz legitimate

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