Mueller, F.J.H. von (30 September 1857), Account of some new Australian plants. Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria 2: 69 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "on Mount Laperouse, south-western Tasmania. C. Stuart, A. Oldfield."

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 664 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 84 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 84 [secondary reference]

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

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 364 [secondary reference]

Belcher, R.O. (24 July 1996), Australian alpine scapose radiate taxa of Senecio (Asteraceae). Muelleria 9: 125 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "(here chosen): Tasmania, Mt La Perouse, 1 Mar. 1857, C.Stuart 1871, K ex Hb. W.J.Hook, upper right specimen, ruled off from rest of sheet by pencilled line: ISOLECTOTYPI: MEL 40321 & 40322."

Thompson, I.R. (22 November 2006), A taxonomic treatment of tribe Senecioneae (Asteraceae) in Australia. Muelleria 24: 76 [secondary reference]

Wapstra, M., Thompson, I. & Buchanan, A. (2008), An illustrated and annotated key to the Tasmanian species of Senecio (Asteraceae). Kanunnah 3: 76, Fig. 25 [secondary reference]

common name: showy alpine groundsel [n/a]

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

isonym: Senecio primulifolius F.Muell. isonym

• APC Dist.: Tas

Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Senecio. Flora of Australia 37: 278-279, 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]

Schmidt-Lebuhn, A.N., Zeil-Rolfe, I., Lepschi, B. & Gooden, B. (14 September 2020), Expansion of Lordhowea, and a new genus for scapose, alpine Australian species of Senecioneae (Asteraceae). Taxon 69(4): 469 [basionym]

basionym of: Scapisenecio primulifolius (F.Muell.) Schmidt-Leb. legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (12 May 2021), Appendix 1: Changes in the Census between the 2020 and 2021 editions: 1B: taxa that have changed names between 2020 and 2021. A Census of the vascular plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 140 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Scapisenecio primulifolius (F.Muell.) Schmidt-Leb. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Senecio primulaefolius I.Thomps. orth. var. isonym: Senecio primulifolius F.Muell. isonym

• APC Dist.: Tas

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Scapisenecio primulifolius (F.Muell.) Schmidt-Leb. legitimate

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