Turczaninow, P.K.N.S. (1851), Papilionaceae. Podalyrieae et Loteae Australasicae Non-Nullae, Hucusque non Descriptae. Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou 24(1): 176 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Toxanthes perpusilla Turcz.

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 592 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Anthocerastes A.Gray legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 82 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Scyphocoronis A.Gray legitimate taxonomic synonym: Anthocerastes A.Gray legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 197 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 83, 235 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 639 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Greek toxon, a bow; anthos, flower: alluding to the bent corollas."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 918 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 87 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Compositae (Asteraceae) - most genera. Flora of Central Australia: 394 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. (30 March 1990), New taxa and new combinations in Australian Gnaphaliinae (Inuleae: Asteraceae). Muelleria 7(2): 246 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Millotia Cass. legitimate

Anderberg, A.A. (1991), Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae). Opera Botanica 104: 59 [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Toxanthus Benth. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Anthocerastes A.Gray legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Millotia Cass. legitimate

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