Gnaphalium maritimum Linnaeus, Mantissa Plantarum Altera: 283. 1771, nom. illeg.

"Habitat ad Cap. b. spei littora maris." RCN: 6164.

Lectotype (Hilliard & Burtt in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 82: 200, 244, 252. 1981): Tulbagh 71, Herb. Linn. No. 989.29 (LINN) .

Current name: Helichrysum dasyanthum (Willd.) Sweet ( Asteraceae).

Note: A later homonym of Gnaphalium maritimum Hill (1769), and hence illegitimate.