Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1838), Compositae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 6: 180 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "in Nova-Hollandia orientali et ad litt. sterilia orae austr.-occid. ad King's George-Sound."

Schultz (Bipontinus), C.H. (1845), Ueber die Gattung Gnaphalium L. Botanische Zeitung 3: 170 [basionym]

basionym of: Gnaphalium cordatum (DC.) Sch.Bip. legitimate

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 627 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 81 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. (1958), A monographic study of Helichrysum Subgenus Ozothamnus (Compositae) and of two related genera formerly included therein. Australian Journal of Botany 6(3): 240 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Barren shores of King George Sound, A. Cunningham (G-DC), 1818 (non vidi). (isotype at Kew?)."

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 166 [secondary reference]

Lander, N.S. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Asteraceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 683 [secondary reference]

common name: Tangle Daisy [n/a]

Anderberg, A.A. (1991), Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae). Opera Botanica 104: 89 [secondary reference]

Anderberg, A.A. (1991), Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae). Opera Botanica 104: 89 [basionym]

basionym of: Ozothamnus cordatus (DC.) Anderb. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Ozothamnus cordatus (DC.) Anderb. legitimate

Barrett, R.L., Schmidt-Lebuhn, A.N. & Thiele, K.R. (28 March 2013), Two Western Australian species of Ozothamnus transferred to Pithocarpa (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae). Nuytsia 23: 107 [basionym]

basionym of: Pithocarpa cordata (DC.) Schmidt-Leb. & R.L.Barrett legitimate

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 52 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Pithocarpa cordata (DC.) Schmidt-Leb. & R.L.Barrett legitimate

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