Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 850 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

taxonomic synonym: Gnaphalium sect. Eugnaphalium DC. nom. inval.

• Comment: For note on lectotypification see G.Jeffrey, Taxon 28 (1979) 349–351.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 368 [secondary reference]

Labillardière, J.J.H. de (1806), Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen 2(20-21): 43 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 652 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Leontopodium (Pers.) R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Euchiton Cass. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym: Euchiton Cass. legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 191, 196, 203 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 266 [secondary reference]

common name: Cudweed [n/a]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 3: 453 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Gnaphalium luteo-album L.

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 90-91 [secondary reference]

common name: Cud-weed [n/a]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 620 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greco-Latin gnaphalion, name of some woolly plant used for stuffing cushions."

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

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 382-383 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 316-318 [secondary reference]

common name: Cudweed [n/a]

Wilson, Paul G. in Eichler, Hj. (1965), Gnaphalium. Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 311-312 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 388-389 [secondary reference]

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 366 [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: 398-399 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 529-530 [secondary reference]

common name: Cudweeds [n/a]

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: 679-680 [secondary reference]

Anderberg, A.A. (1991), Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae). Opera Botanica 104: 167-168 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Omalotheca Cass. nom. alt.

Anderberg, A.A. (1991), Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae). Opera Botanica 104: 166 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Euchiton Cass. legitimate

Everett, J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Gnaphalium. Flora of New South Wales 3: 206 [secondary reference]

common name: Cudweeds [n/a]

Lawrence, M.E. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Acanthospermum - Gnaphalium. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 946 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Gnaphalium. Flora of Victoria 4: 826 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 508 [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: 266, Figs. 61H, 64D [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 365 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Gnaphalium subg. Omalotheca Cass. nom. alt. taxonomic synonym: Omalotheca Cass. nom. alt. taxonomic synonym: Gnaphalium sect. Eugnaphalium DC. nom. inval.

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

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