Willis, J.H. (1952), Notes on some Australian Compositae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 62: 101, t. V. [tax. nov.]

• Type: "QUEENSLAND.– South Kennedy District: Lake Elphinstone, about 100 miles WSW of Mackay, 1870, Amalie Dietrich 1722 (HOLOTYPE in MEL; CLASTOTYPE in BRI.)."

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1: 18 [secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2: 19 [secondary reference]

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 eriocephalus (J.H.Willis) Anderb. legitimate

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