Gnaphalium arboreum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 2: 1191. 1763, nom. illeg.

"Habitat ad Cap. b. spei." RCN: 6148.

Replaced synonym: Gnaphalium arborescens L. (1760) .

Neotype (Lundgren in Opera Bot. 31: 28. 1972): South Africa. Cape Peninsula, Table Mt., rocky slopes and ledges above Kirstenbosch, 600m, 14 Sep 1952, Esterhuysen 20389 (BOL; iso- PRE).

Current name: Anaxeton arborescens (L.) Less. ( Asteraceae).

Note: An illegitimate replacement name for G. arborescens L. (1760), as noted by Hilliard & Burtt (in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 82: 239. 1981).