Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 89 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Very common."

Comber, H.F. (1930), Field Notes of Tasmanian Plants collected by H.F.Comber 1929/30: 45 [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): 272 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Ozothamnus ericifolius Hook.f. legitimate

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 334 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Helichrysum purpurascens (DC.) W.M.Curtis legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Ozothamnus ericifolius Hook.f. legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 20 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Ozothamnus ericifolius Hook.f. legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Schmidt-Lebuhn, A.N. (2018), Integrative approach resolves the taxonomy of the Ozothamnus ledifolius (Asteraceae: Gnaphaliae) species complex in Tasmania, Australia. Phytotaxa 358(2): 132 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Ozothamnus ericifolius Hook.f. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Ozothamnus ericifolius Hook.f. legitimate

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