Gandoger, M. (1912), Manipulus plantarum novarum praecipue Americae australioris. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 59: 707 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Australia, in Sunny Corner (Boorman)."

Orchard, A.E. (1969), Revision of the Acaena ovina A.Cunn. (Rosaceae) complex in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 93: 94-97 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Holotypus: LY! isotypus: NSW (95900)!"

McGillivray, D.J. (12 June 1973), Michel Gandoger's names of Australian plants. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 4(6): 332 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 176 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 186 [secondary reference]

pro parte taxonomic synonym: Acaena x ovina A.Cunn. legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Rosaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 237 [secondary reference]

common name: Sheep's Burr [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 83 [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Acaena x ovina A.Cunn. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (June 1930), Part II. Proteaceae–Papilionaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 49 pro parte misapplication: Acaena x ovina A.Cunn. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 44

Harden, G.J. & Rodd, A.N. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Rosaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 540 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. & Jobson, P.C. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Rosaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 566-567, Fig. 116d [secondary reference]

common name: Hairy's Sheep's Burr [n/a]

Harden, G.J. & Rodd, A.N. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Rosaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 540 [secondary reference]

Jessup, L.W. (2003), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 1 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Acaena agnipila var. tenuispica (Bitter) Orchard legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acaena agnipila var. protenta Orchard legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acaena agnipila var. aequispina Orchard legitimate

Barker, W.R., Barker, R.M., Jessop, J. & Vonow, H. (ed.) (18 March 2005), Census of South Australian Vascular Plants 5th Edition. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens Supplement 1: 61 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Acaena x ovina A.Cunn. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Acaena x ovina A.Cunn. legitimate

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (August 2016), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2015 census to 2016 census. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2016: 24 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Acaena x ovina A.Cunn. legitimate

Orchard, A.E. (2018), How many spicate species of Acaena are there in Australia?. Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 174: 12 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Acaena x ovina A.Cunn. legitimate

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