Mueller, F.J.H. von (1855), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants: 24 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "On the highest and barest gravelly tops of the Munyang Mountains (6000–6500 feet)."

• Comment: See paper by O.Seberg, Taxon 35: 262-271 (1986), which discusses the date of publication of Mueller's preprint.

Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the Colony of Victoria. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 8: 7-8 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 213, pl. 11 [secondary reference]

Gray, M. in Walby, B.J. (ed.) (1976), Miscellaneous notes on Australian plants: Craspedia, Gnaphalium, Epacris, Tasmannia, Colobanthus and Deyeuxia. Contributions from the Herbarium Australiense 26: 8 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Highest summits of the Munyang Mountains, 6000–6500 ft (MEL 64319)."

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 171, Fig. 162 [secondary reference]

common name: Hard cushion-plant [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 97 [secondary reference]

Doust, A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Caryophyllaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 272-273 [secondary reference]

Doust, A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Caryophyllaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 272-273 [secondary reference]

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: NSW, Tas

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Colobanthus pulvinaris F.Muell. orth. var. isonym: Colobanthus pulvinatus F.Muell. isonym

• APC Dist.: NSW, Tas

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 29 [secondary reference]

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