Wilson, Paul G. (29 August 1983), A taxonomic revision of the tribe Chenopodieae (Chenopodiaceae) in Australia. Nuytsia 4(2): 159-160, Fig. 4D, Map 10 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "South Australia, 3 km E of Sanderston; growing on red-brown calcareous loam; straggling subshrub c. 70 cm high; fruit red; 30 Mar. 1959, R. Schodde 1082 (holo: AD; iso: CANB, duplicates distributed to CAL, K)."

pro parte misapplication: Rhagodia spinescens var. deltophylla F.Muell. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (October 1859), Report on the Plants Collected During Mr. Babbage's Expedition into the North West Interior of South Australia in 1858. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly 3(1): 19

• Etymology: "The specific epithet curvispicatum refers to the drooping spike-like panicles which are typical of this species."

Wilson, Paul G. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of Australia 4: 143, Fig. 25, Map 196 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 69 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 218 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 149, Fig. 28i [secondary reference]

common name: Cottony Saltbush [n/a]

Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000), Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1: 25 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 218 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

misapplication: Rhagodia gaudichaudiana Moq. legitimate by Moore, C. (1893), Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales: 106 misapplication: Rhagodia spinescens var. deltophylla F.Muell. legitimate by Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 287 misapplication: Rhagodia gaudichaudiana Moq. legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2: 83

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, NSW, Vic

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