Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 665 [autonym]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 93 [secondary reference]

Belcher, R.O. (24 July 1996), Australian alpine scapose radiate taxa of Senecio (Asteraceae). Muelleria 9: 117 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Tas

Thompson, I.R. (16 November 2004), Taxonomic studies of Australian Senecio (Asteraceae): 3. Radiate arid region species allied to S. magnificus and the radiate, alpine species S. pectinatus. Muelleria 20: 130, Figs 9 (map), 10 [secondary reference]

Thompson, I.R. (22 November 2006), A taxonomic treatment of tribe Senecioneae (Asteraceae) in Australia. Muelleria 24: 74-75 [secondary reference]

Wapstra, M., Thompson, I. & Buchanan, A. (2008), An illustrated and annotated key to the Tasmanian species of Senecio (Asteraceae). Kanunnah 3: 71, Fig. 21 [secondary reference]

common name: yellow alpine groundsel [n/a]

Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Senecio. Flora of Australia 37: 277, Fig. 34L, map [secondary reference]

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 22 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Scapisenecio pectinatus (DC.) Schmidt-Leb. var. pectinatus legitimate

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