Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1836), Compositae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 5: 269 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "abundè in fossâ paludosâ Novae Hollandiae, ad littus boreale insulae Stradbroke (lat. 27½) mense Septembr. floridam legit cl. Cunningham."

taxonomic synonym: Aster hygrophilus DC. nom. inval., pro syn.

Schultz (Bipontinus), C.H. (1861), Jahresbericht der Pollichia: 174 [basionym]

basionym of: Shawia hygrophila (DC.) Sch.Bip. legitimate

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 474 [basionym]

basionym of: Olearia hygrophila (DC.) Benth. legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 520 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Olearia hygrophila (DC.) Benth. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Olearia hygrophila (DC.) Benth. 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): 223 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Type: in a bog on the northern shore of Stradbroke Island, Moreton Bay, 1828, A. Cunningham (lecto: G-DC! here designated; isolecto: BM!, G-DC!, P)."

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): 223 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Olearia hygrophila (DC.) Benth. legitimate

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