Hammer, T.A., Davis, R.W. & Thiele, K.R. (8 May 2019), Of a different feather: two new species of featherheads from the Ptilotus macrocephalus (Amaranthaceae) complex. Australian Systematic Botany 32(1): 68-69, Figs 1-3, 5 (map) [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Western Australia, 700 m south along Paynes Find–Yalgoo road from junction of Geraldton–Mount Magnet road, 26 Aug. 2018, R.Davis & T.Hammer RD12901 (holo: PERTH!; iso [to be distributed]: BRI!, CANB!)"

• Etymology: "From the Greek xeros (dry) and philia (love), referring to the distribution of this species in lower-rainfall regions of Australia than that of the other two species in the P. macrocephalus complex, which occur in higher-rainfall regions of eastern Australia (see Fig. 5B)."

Brown, G.K. & Bostock, P.D. (December 2019), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2018 to 2019. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2019: 7 [secondary reference]

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (10 December 2019), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2019. Nuytsia 30: 342 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Ptilotus macrocephalus (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate by Palmer, J., Lally, T.R. & Miller, C.H. in Kellermann, J. (ed.) (2014), Amaranthaceae (version 2). Flora of South Australia: 28

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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