Brown, R. (1818), Observations on the natural family of plants called Compositae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 12(1): 106 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 573 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Leucophyta R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pachysurus Steetz legitimate taxonomic synonym: Blennospora A.Gray legitimate taxonomic synonym: Achrysum A.Gray legitimate

Baillon, H.E. (1882), Histoire des Plantes 8: 180 [basionym]

basionym of: Craspedia sect. Calocephalus (R.Br.) Baill. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 83 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Leucophyta R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pachysurus Steetz legitimate taxonomic synonym: Blennospora A.Gray legitimate taxonomic synonym: Achrysum A.Gray legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 175, 180, 187-188, 189 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 268 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 89-90, 234 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 646 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Greek kalos, beautiful; kephale, a head."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 927 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 345 [secondary reference]

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

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 73 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Compositae (Craspedia to Actinobole). Flora of Central Australia: 391 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 545-546 [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: 664 [secondary reference]

Anderberg, A.A. (1991), Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae). Opera Botanica 104: 131 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: C. citreus (lectotype selected here)

taxonomic synonym: Achrysum A.Gray legitimate

Brown, E.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Asteraceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 3: 258 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Calocephalus. Flora of Victoria 4: 809-810 [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: 259 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 139 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Craspedia sect. Calocephalus (R.Br.) Baill. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pachysurus Steetz legitimate taxonomic synonym: Achrysum A.Gray legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pachysura F.Muell. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

Short, P.S. (15 December 2016), Notes concerning the classification of species included in Calocephalus R.Br. s.lat. and Gnephosis Cass. s.lat. (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae), with descriptions of new genera and species. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 29: 169 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Achrysum A.Gray legitimate

• Comment: cited as Calocephalus R.Br. s.lat.

Short, P.S. (15 December 2016), Notes concerning the classification of species included in Calocephalus R.Br. s.lat. and Gnephosis Cass. s.lat. (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae), with descriptions of new genera and species. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 29: 166-167 [secondary reference]

• Comment: cited as Calocephalus R.Br. s.str.

Short, P.S. (15 December 2016), Notes concerning the classification of species included in Calocephalus R.Br. s.lat. and Gnephosis Cass. s.lat. (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae), with descriptions of new genera and species. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 29: 164 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Blennospora A.Gray legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 573

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Craspedia sect. Calocephalus (R.Br.) Baill. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Achrysum A.Gray legitimate

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

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