Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1838), Compositae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 6: 181 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "ad littora Novae-Hollandiae in Regis Georgii sinu legit cl. A. Cunningham"

Schultz (Bipontinus), C.H. (1845), Ueber die Gattung Gnaphalium L. Botanische Zeitung 3: 170 [basionym]

basionym of: Gnaphalium ramosum (DC.) Sch.Bip. nom. illeg.

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 627 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Helichrysum gracile DC. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 81 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. (1958), A monographic study of Helichrysum Subgenus Ozothamnus (Compositae) and of two related genera formerly included therein. Australian Journal of Botany 6(3): 241-242 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Helichrysum gracile DC. legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 166 [secondary reference]

Anderberg, A.A. (1991), Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae). Opera Botanica 104: 89 [secondary reference]

Wilson, P.G., Short, P.S. & Orchard, A.E. (16 April 1992), Some nomenclatural changes in the Angianthinae and Cassiniinae (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae). Muelleria 7(4): 521 [basionym]

basionym of: Ozothamnus ramosus (DC.) Paul G.Wilson legitimate

Barrett, R.L., Schmidt-Lebuhn, A.N. & Thiele, K.R. (28 March 2013), Two Western Australian species of Ozothamnus transferred to Pithocarpa (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae). Nuytsia 23: 107 [basionym]

basionym of: Pithocarpa ramosa (DC.) Schmidt-Leb. & R.L.Barrett legitimate

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