Labillardière, J.J.H. de (1806), Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen 2(16): 19, t. 158 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Anthocercis littorea Labill.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1861), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 2(15): 138 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(45): 142 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 474 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cyphanthera Miers legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eadesia F.Muell. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 96 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cyphanthera Miers legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eadesia F.Muell. legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 221, 223 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 138-139, 231, 235 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 504 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Greek anthos, a flower; kerkis, a ray: alluding to the usually narrow corolla-lobes, spreading horizontally."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 760 [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: 403 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 509 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 895 [secondary reference]

Haegi, L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Duboisia, Anthotroche, Anthocercis. Flora of Central Australia: 325 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 202 [secondary reference]

Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Solanaceae. Flora of Australia 29: 6-13 APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Anthoceris Steud. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, NSW

Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Solanaceae. Flora of Australia 29: 17 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Duboisia R.Br. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1861), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 2(15): 138

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Duboisia R.Br. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(45): 142

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Solanaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 526-527 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 152 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eadesia F.Muell. legitimate

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 889 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 51 [secondary reference]

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