Gnaphalium cylindriflorum Linnaeus, Plantae Rariores Africanae: 19. 1760.

["Habitat ad Cap. b. spei."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2: 1194 (1763). RCN: 6166.

Lectotype (Hilliard & Burtt in Jarvis & Turland in Taxon 47: 361. 1998): [icon] " Gnaphalium Aethiopicum minus, ramosum, capitulis coccineis " in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 298, f. 4. 1694; Almag. Bot.: 172. 1696. - Typotype: Herb. Sloane 100: 104 (BM-SL) .

Current name: Helichrysum cylindriflorum (L.) Hilliard & B.L. Burtt ( Asteraceae).

Note: Hilliard & Burtt (in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 82: 241. 1981) indicated Plukenet material in Herb. Sloane as type. However, as this was never seen by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name, Hilliard & Burtt (1998) subsequently modified their typification.