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Nuytsia
The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium

The classification of Australian species currently included in Helipterum and related genera (Asteraceae : Gnaphalieae) : Part 2 Leucochrysum
WILSON, PAUL G.

A new endemic Australian genus, Leucochrysum (DC.) Paul G. Wilson, is described to accommodate Helipterum stipitatum, H. fitzgibbonii, and most of the taxa previously referred to the H. albicans group. New combinations are effected to accommodate the five species and five infraspecific taxa.