Candolle, A.P. de in Guillemin, J.B.A. (1833), Genres nouveaux appartenant à la famille des Composées ou Synanthérées: Première décade. Archives de Botanique 2(4): 330 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Aplotaxis gnaphaloides Royle, Ill. Bot. (1835) 251, first species described. [ref. Index Nominum Genericorum 1 (1979) 112].

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1858), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 1(2): 36 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 456 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Saussurea DC. nom. cons.

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

taxonomic synonym of: Saussurea DC. nom. cons.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 143 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Saussurea DC. nom. cons.

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

orthographic variant: Haplotaxis Endl. orth. var.

• APC Comment: Recorded by F.Mueller, Fragm. 1: 36 (1858) (as 'Haplotaxis'), under H. australasica (= Hemisteptia lyrata). Aplotaxis is now treated as a synonym of Saussurea DC.

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