Gnaphalium crassifolium Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 12, 2: 544; Mantissa Plantarum: 112. 1767.

"Habitat ad Cap. b. spei." RCN: 6163.

Lectotype (Hilliard & Burtt in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 32: 345. 1973): Herb. Linn. No. 989.27 (LINN) .

Current name: Helichrysum crassifolium (L.) D. Don ( Asteraceae).

Note: See discussion by Galbany-Casals & al. (in Taxon 55: 491. 2006) on the application of this name.