Gnaphalium cylindricum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 2: 1194. 1763, nom. illeg.

"Habitat ad Cap. b. spei." RCN: 6166.

Replaced synonym: Gnaphalium cylindriflorum L. (1760) .

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: An illegitimate replacement name for G. cylindriflorum L. (1760), as noted by Hilliard & Burtt (in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 82: 241, 261. 1981).