Hooker, J.D. in Hooker, W.J. (1847), Florae Tasmaniae Spicilegium: or, Contributions towards a Flora of Van Diemen's Land. London Journal of Botany 6: 107 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not cited).

Hooker, J.D. (17 October 1856), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 1(3): 176, t. XLIV.A. [secondary reference]

• Type: "Gunn, 273, 1137, 1139."

Hutchinson, J. (1917), Gardeners' Chronicle. London. Series 3 61: 24 [basionym]

basionym of: Olearia gunniana var. brevipes (Hook.f.) Hutch. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Olearia phlogopappa (Labill.) DC. legitimate

Messina, A., Walsh, N.G., Hoebee, S.E. & Green, P.T. (12 April 2013), A morphological assessment of the Olearia phlogopappa complex (Asteraceae) Astereae). Australian Systematic Botany 26: 60 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Tasmania, Hooker s.n. (lectotype here designated: K; isolectotypes: Fl, G).

Messina, A., Walsh, N.G., Hoebee, S.E. & Green, P.T. (12 April 2013), A morphological assessment of the Olearia phlogopappa complex (Asteraceae) Astereae). Australian Systematic Botany 26: 60 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Olearia phlogopappa subsp. gunniana (DC.) Messina legitimate

Messina, A., Walsh, N.G., Hoebee, S.E. & Green, P.T. (9 December 2014), A revision of Olearia section Asterotriche (Asteraceae: Astereae). Australian Systematic Botany 27(3): 231 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Olearia phlogopappa subsp. gunniana (DC.) Messina legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Olearia phlogopappa subsp. gunniana (DC.) Messina legitimate

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