Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1855), Botany of Victoria (Southern Australia). Extracts of Letters from Dr. Ferdinand Mueller, Colonial Botanist, Victoria. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 7: 360 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "On the swampy table-land, about 4000 feet high..." [environs of Mt Wellington, Gippsland, Victoria]

• Etymology: "...which I shall call, as the only Irideous plant here to be found at such a height, P. subalpina..."

Baker, J.G. (1892), Handbook of the Irideae: 135 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Patersonia sericea R.Br. legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 535 [basionym]

basionym of: Patersonia sericea var. subalpina (F.Muell.) Domin legitimate

Geerinck, D.J.L. (1974), Revision of Australian Iridaceae. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 44: 53 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Patersonia sericea R.Br. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Patersonia sericea R.Br. legitimate

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