Mueller, F.J.H. von (1863), A Record of the Plants collected by Mr Pemberton Walcott and Mr Maitland Brown, in the year 1861, during Mr F. Gregory's Exploring Expedition into North-West Australia. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal n. ser 17(2): 231 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In vallibus rupestribus sinus Nickol Bay. Walcott."

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 540 [basionym]

basionym of: Moonia trichodesmoides (F.Muell.) Benth. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 83 [basionym]

basionym of: Chrysogonum trichodesmoides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate

Karis, P.O., Anderberg, A.A. & Nordenstam, B. (31 May 1993), Resurrection and systematic position of Pentalepis F.Muell. (Asteraceae-Heliantheae). Australian Systematic Botany 6(2): 152 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Rocky ravines at Nicol Bay, Walcott s.n. (MEL, lectotype selected here, K)"

nomenclatural synonym: Chrysogonum trichodesmoides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Moonia trichodesmoides (F.Muell.) Benth. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Chrysogonum trichodesmoides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate isonym: Pentalepis trichodesmoides F.Muell. isonym

• APC Dist.: WA, NT

Orchard, A.E. & Cross, E.W. (18 December 2012), A revision of the Australian endemic genus Pentalepis (Asteraceae: Ecliptinae). Nuytsia 22(6): 373-374 [secondary reference]

• Type: "'In vallibus rupestribus sinus Nickol Bay. Walcott' (holo: rocky ravines at Nickol Bay, N.W. Coast of N. Australia, s.dat., Walcott s.n., MEL 1608228!; iso: Gregory Expedition, Nickol Bay, [Walcott], Herb. Hookerianum, K!)."

nomenclatural synonym: Moonia trichodesmoides (F.Muell.) Benth. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Chrysogonum trichodesmoides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate isonym: Pentalepis trichodesmoides F.Muell. isonym

• Comment: "The type specimen of P. trichodesmoides in K has been incorrectly labelled as the holotype by Stuessy, 1973. It is an isotype. The holotype is in Mueller’s own herbarium in MEL."

Orchard, A.E. & Cross, E.W. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Pentalepis. Flora of Australia 37: 505 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Moonia trichodesmoides (F.Muell.) Benth. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Chrysogonum trichodesmoides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate

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