Lessing, C.F. (1832), Synopsis Generum Compositarum: 271 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not cited).

Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 14 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 575 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 83 [secondary reference]

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

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Key to the System of Victorian Plants 1: 332 [secondary reference]

pro parte taxonomic synonym: Calocephalus lessingi F.Muell. nom. inval., pro syn.

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 352 [basionym]

basionym of: Leucophyta lactea (Less.) Kuntze legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (5 April 1893), Descriptions of new Australian plants, with occasional other annotations. The Victorian Naturalist 9(12): 188 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Leucophyta lessingii F.Muell. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 82 [secondary reference]

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

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

Maiden, J.H. & Betche, E. (1916), A Census of New South Wales Plants: 200 [basionym]

basionym of: Calocephalus lessingii f. lacteus (Less.) Maiden & Betche legitimate

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 648 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 928 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 345-346 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 164 [secondary reference]

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

Short, P.S. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Calocephalus. Flora of Victoria 4: 811, Fig. 162e [secondary reference]

common name: Milky Beauty-heads [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Leucophyta lactea (Less.) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Calocephalus lessingii f. lacteus (Less.) Maiden & Betche legitimate pro parte taxonomic synonym: Leucophyta lessingii F.Muell. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. pro parte taxonomic synonym: Calocephalus lessingii F.Muell. ex Ewart nom. illeg.

• APC Dist.: SA, NSW, Vic, Tas

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 11 [secondary reference]

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: 168-169 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Leucophyta lactea (Less.) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Leucophyta lessingi F.Muell. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Calocephalus lessingii f. lacteus (Less.) Maiden & Betche legitimate

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