Mueller, F.J.H. von (1855), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants: 13 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In shady moist valleys of the Dandenong ranges, of Mount Disappointment, and on the Delatite."

• Comment: See paper by O.Seberg, Taxon 35: 262-271 (1986), which discusses the date of publication of Mueller's preprint.

Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the Colony of Victoria. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 8: 162 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 667 [secondary reference]

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

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 198 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 111 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 382 [secondary reference]

Ali, S.I. (1965), Some new taxa in Senecio L. from Australia. Kew Bulletin 19(3): 426 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Victoria, shaded gullies in Dandenong ranges, Jan. 1853, F. Mueller (MEL)."

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 86 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Senecio. Flora of New South Wales 3: 309 [secondary reference]

Thompson, I.R. (22 November 2006), A taxonomic treatment of tribe Senecioneae (Asteraceae) in Australia. Muelleria 24: 70-71 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Senecio vagus F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud. isonym: Senecio vagus F.Muell. isonym

• APC Dist.: NSW, Vic, Tas

Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Senecio. Flora of Australia 37: 272-273 [secondary reference]

common name: Saw Groundsel [n/a]

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