Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 798 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 349 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 680 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 3: 315 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Leontodon taraxacum L.

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 659 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Neo-Greek name meaning "lion's tooth" and formed as a translation of the French dent-de-lion (dandelion), a plant which was placed by Linnaeus in this genus. The name was an allusion to the sharp leaf-lobes."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 940 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Neo-Greek name meaning "lion's tooth" and formed as a translation of the French dent-de-lion (dandelion), a plant which was placed by Linnaeus in this genus. The name was an allusion to the sharp leaf-lobes."

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 386 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 81 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 593 [secondary reference]

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: 689 [secondary reference]

Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Leontodon. Flora of New South Wales 3: 333 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asteraceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 708 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 512 [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: 197 [secondary reference]

Thompson, I.R. (22 May 2007), A taxonomic treatment of tribe Lactuceae (Asteraceae) in Australia. Muelleria 25: 91 [secondary reference]

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

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 479 [secondary reference]

Enke, N., Gemeinholzer, B. & Zidorn, C. (2012), Molecular and phytochemical systematics of the subtribe Hypochaeridinae (Asteraceae, Cichorieae). Organisms Diversity and Evolution 12(1): 14 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hedypnois Mill. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hedypnois Mill. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Hedypnois Scop. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

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

Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Leontodon. Flora of Australia 37: 140 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "from the Greek leontos (lion) and odontos (tooth), probably alluding to the deeply toothed leaves."

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