Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (14 December 1816), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique Suppl. 4(2): 620 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Trichinium fusiforme R.Br. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 28 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3: 4 [secondary reference]

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 322 [secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 226 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Trichinium gracile R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ptilotus gracilis (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate

Benl, G. (15 May 1959), Beitrag zu einer revision der Gattung Ptilotus R.Br. (Amaranthaceae) 2. Teil. Mitteilungen der Botanischen Staatssammlung Munchen 3: 36 [secondary reference]

Benl, G. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Ptilotus. Flora of Central Australia: 82 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Trichinium fusiforme R.Br. legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 73 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Amaranthaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 126-128, Fig. 32E [secondary reference]

Moore, P. (2005), A guide to plants of inland Australia: 256 (photo, map) [secondary reference]

• Etymology: fusiformis: spindle-shaped (root).

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

• APC Comment: A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 2447 (1991) stated that Poiret did not validly make this combination. However, under Article 33.1 of the 2006 (Vienna) edition of the ICBN, this name is considered to be validly published.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Bean, A.R. (11 November 2008), A synopsis of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae) in eastern Australia. Telopea 12(2): 234-235 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Trichinium fusiforme R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Trichinium fusiforme R.Br. var. fusiforme legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Trichinium fusiforme var. typicum Domin nom. inval. nomenclatural synonym: Ptilotus fusiformis (R.Br.) Poir. var. fusiformis legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trichinium gracile R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ptilotus gracilis (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trichinium fusiforme var. gracile (R.Br.) Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ptilotus fusiformis var. gracilis (R.Br.) Benl legitimate

• APC Comment: A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 2446, 2447 (1991) stated that Poiret did not validly make the combinations Ptilotus fusiformis and P. gracilis. However, under Article 33.1 of the 2006 (Vienna) edition of the ICBN, this name is considered to be validly published.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Barker, R.M. & Lang, P.J. (10 July 2012), Name changes associated with the South Australian census of vascular plants for the calendar year 2011. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 25: 101 [secondary reference]

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