Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 79, 142 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Monenteles sphacelatus Labill. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Monenteles intermedius DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Monenteles globifer DC. legitimate

• Comment: Mueller attributes the name to "Bentham & J. Hooker, gen. plant. II, 94 (1873)". While G.Bentham in G.Bentham & J.D.Hooker, Gen. Pl. 2: 294 (1873), indicates that the name Monenteles had been applied to Australian species of Pterocaulon he does not make the required combination at specific rank.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (10 March 1884), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 1: 5 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 187 [alternative name]

alternative name: Monenteles sphacelatus Labill. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 266 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Monenteles sphacelatus Labill. legitimate

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 94 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 619 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1930), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 1218 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Monenteles sphacelatus Labill. legitimate

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 895-896 [secondary reference]

common name: Apple-bush [n/a]

Bateman, W. & Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Some ecological and systematic notes on the vegetation near Mt. Marumba in the centre of Arnhem Land. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 331 [secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 314 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Monenteles sphacelatus Labill. legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 265 [secondary reference]

Cabrera, A.L. & Ragonese, A.M (1978), Revision del genero Pterocaulon (Compositae). Darwiniana 21: 245-249 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Monenteles globifer DC. legitimate

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 685 [secondary reference]

common name: Applebush [n/a] common name: Fruit-salad Plant [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 84 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Monenteles sphacelatus Labill. legitimate

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Compositae (Asteraceae) - most genera. Flora of Central Australia: 410, Fig. 527 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Monenteles sphacelatus Labill. legitimate common name: Apple bush [n/a]

Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2: 238 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 169 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 529, Fig. 74F [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Monenteles sphacelatus Labill. legitimate

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 12 [secondary reference]

Porteners, M.F. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Pterocaulon. Flora of New South Wales 3: 204 [secondary reference]

common name: Applebush [n/a]

Wilson, A.J.G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Minuria - Xanthium. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 953, Fig. 289D [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 67 [secondary reference]

common name: Woolly Tobacco [n/a]

• Vernacular: ngalil (Bardi)

Moore, P. (2005), A guide to plants of inland Australia: 126 (photo, map) [secondary reference]

common name: Fruit Salad Plant [n/a] common name: Apple Bush [n/a]

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

orthographic variant: Pterocaulon sphacelatus F.Muell. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Monenteles sphacelatus Labill. legitimate misapplication: Pterocaulon sphaeranthoides (DC.) F.Muell. legitimate by Holland, A.E. in Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (ed.) (2007), Asteraceae. Census of the Queensland Flora 2007: 30

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

Bean, A.R. (1 December 2011), A taxonomic revision of Pterocaulon section Monenteles (Labill.) Kuntze (Asteraceae: Inuleae-Plucheinae). Austrobaileya 8(3): 314-317, Figs 2A, 16E-H, 17, Map 8 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Monenteles sphacelatus Labill. legitimate

Bean, A.R. (1 December 2011), A taxonomic revision of Pterocaulon section Monenteles (Labill.) Kuntze (Asteraceae: Inuleae-Plucheinae). Austrobaileya 8(3): 291 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Pterocaulon ciliosum A.R.Bean legitimate by Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 529, Fig. 74F

Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Pterocaulon. Flora of Australia 37: 394-395, map [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Monenteles sphacelatus Labill. legitimate common name: Apple Bush [n/a] common name: Fruit Salad Plant [n/a]

Turner, I.M. (2016), Species names attributed to Bentham & Hooker's Genera Plantarum. Annales Botanici Fennici 53(5-6): 316 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Monenteles sphacelatus Labill. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Pterocaulon sphacelatus F.Muell. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Monenteles sphacelatus Labill. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Monenteles intermedius DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Monenteles globiferus DC. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Monenteles globifer DC. legitimate misapplication: Pterocaulon sphaeranthoides (DC.) F.Muell. legitimate by Holland, A.E. in Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (ed.) (2007), Asteraceae. Census of the Queensland Flora 2007: 30

Moxham, C., Stajsic, V., Kenny, S.A., Bennetts, K., Sutter, G., Sluiter, I. & Cameron, D. (24 April 2019), Pluchea rubelliflora and Pterocaulon sphacelatum (Asteraceae): new to Victoria’s semi-arid floodplains. Muelleria 37: 123, Fig. 1b [secondary reference]

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