Gnaphalium crispum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 2: 1197. 1763.

"Habitat ad Cap. b. spei." RCN: 6179.

Lectotype (Hilliard & Burtt in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 82: 241. 1981): [icon] " Gnaphalium aureum Aethiopicum flore roseo pleno " in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 298, f. 3. 1694; Almag. Bot.: 171. 1696. - Typotype: Herb. Sloane 100: 104 (BM-SL) .

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