Hooker, J.D. (1846), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror. I. Flora Antarctica 2(19): 341 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Falkland Islands; Berkeley Sound and St. Salvador Bay, near the sea; C. Darwin, Esq., J.D.H."

Aellen, P. in Probst, R. (1949), Wolladventivflora Mitteleuropas: 63 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Paul G. (29 August 1983), A taxonomic revision of the tribe Chenopodieae (Chenopodiaceae) in Australia. Nuytsia 4(2): 143-144, Map 16 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Paul G. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of Australia 4: 137, Fig. 23, Map 183 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium halophilum Phil. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium macrospermum subsp. halophilum (Phil.) Aellen legitimate

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

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 84-85 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 146, Fig. 28b [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Chenopodium macrospermum Hook.f. subsp. macrospermum legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium halophilum Phil. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium macrospermum subsp. halophilum (Phil.) Aellen legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Fuentes-Bazan, S., Uotila, P.J. & Borsch, T. (2012), A novel phylogeny-based generic classification for Chenopodium sensu lato, and a tribal rearrangement of Chenopodioideae (Chenopodiaceae). Willdenowia 42(1): 15 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (here designated): Falkland Islands, 1839-43, J.D. Hooker (K 583178; isolectotypes: BM 993193, P 606443).

Fuentes-Bazan, S., Uotila, P.J. & Borsch, T. (2012), A novel phylogeny-based generic classification for Chenopodium sensu lato, and a tribal rearrangement of Chenopodioideae (Chenopodiaceae). Willdenowia 42(1): 15 [basionym]

basionym of: Oxybasis macrosperma (Hook.f.) S.Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Chenopodium macrospermum Hook.f. subsp. macrospermum legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Oxybasis macrosperma (Hook.f.) S.Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium halophilum Phil. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium macrospermum subsp. halophilum (Phil.) Aellen legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

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