Phyteuma confusum A. Kern., Z. Ferdinandeums Tirol. 15: 247. 1870
- ≡Phyteuma orbiculare subvar. confusum (A. Kern.) Nyman, Consp. Fl. Eur.: 484. 1879
- ≡Phyteuma latifolium (A. Kern.) Dalla Torre in Hartinger & von Dalla Torre, Atlas Alpenfl.: 160. 1882, nom. superfl.
- ≡Phyteuma hemisphaericum subsp. confusum (A. Kern.) Nyman, Consp. Fl. Eur., Suppl. 2: 212. 1889