Cassini, A.H.G. de in Cuvier, F. (ed.) (1825), Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles Edn. 2, 35: 397 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 674 [secondary reference]

Baillon, H.E. (1882), Histoire des Plantes 8: 198 [basionym]

basionym of: Arctotis sect. Cymbonotus (Cass.) Baill. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 85 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 203 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 276 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 112-113, 234 [secondary reference]

Beauverd, G. (1915), Bulletin de la Societe Botanique de Geneve 7: 49 [basionym]

basionym of: Arctotis subg. Cymbonotus (Cass.) Beauverd legitimate

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 615 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Greek kymbe, a boat; notos, back: alluding to the convex back of the achenes."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 891 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 373 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 375-376 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 76 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 579 [secondary reference]

Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Cymbonotus. Flora of New South Wales 3: 318 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asteraceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 716-717 [secondary reference]

Holland, A.E. & Funk, V.A. (13 November 2006), A revision of Cymbonotus (Compositae: Arctotideae, Arctotidinae). Telopea 11(3): 266-267 [secondary reference]

• Type: here designated: Cymbonotus lawsonianum Gaudich.

nomenclatural synonym: Arctotis sect. Cymbonotus (Cass.) Baill. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Arctotis subg. Cymbonotus (Cass.) Beauverd legitimate

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: 204 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 245 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Cymbonotus. Flora of Australia 37: 165 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "from Greek kymbe, kymbos (boat, cup) and notos (back), alluding to the convex back of the achenes."

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