Llave, P. de la & Lexarza, J.M. de (1825), Novorum Vegetabilium Descriptiones 2: 11 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Montanoa tomentosa Llave & Lex.

Kleinschmidt, H.E. & Johnson, R.W. (1977), Weeds of Queensland: 326 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 82 [secondary reference]

Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Montanoa. Flora of New South Wales 3: 273 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 83 [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: 470 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 556 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Montagnea Benth. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised)

Orchard, A.E. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Trib. Heliantheae Subtrib. 2. Montanoinae. Flora of Australia 37: 539 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "named in honour of Dr Luis Montana, a physician and naturalist from Puebla, Mexico."

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