Moquin-Tandon, C.H.B.A. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1849), Amarantaceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 13(2): 293 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In Nova Hollandia orient. inter. ad Hunter's River (A. Cunningham!)"

Benl, G. (15 May 1959), Beitrag zu einer revision der Gattung Ptilotus R.Br. (Amaranthaceae) 2. Teil. Mitteilungen der Botanischen Staatssammlung Munchen 3: 39 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Ptilotus macrocephalus (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Ptilotus macrocephalus (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate

State Herbarium of South Australia (2007), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Ptilotus macrocephalus (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate

Bean, A.R. (11 November 2008), A synopsis of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae) in eastern Australia. Telopea 12(2): 239 [secondary reference]

• Type: "New South Wales, Hunter's River, A. Cunningham s.n.; iso G-DC, microfiche."

Bean, A.R. (11 November 2008), A synopsis of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae) in eastern Australia. Telopea 12(2): 239 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Ptilotus macrocephalus (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate

Hammer, T.A., Davis, R.W. & Thiele, K.R. (8 May 2019), Of a different feather: two new species of featherheads from the Ptilotus macrocephalus (Amaranthaceae) complex. Australian Systematic Botany 32(1): 67 [secondary reference]

• Type: "New South Wales, the upper parts ofHunter River,1825, A.Cunningham s.n. (syn: K 000356810, image! https://plants. jstor.org/stable/10.5555al.ap.specimen.k000356810; syn: P00609981, image! https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555al.ap.specimen.p00609981; syn: G-DC (microfiche), fide Bean 2008)."

Hammer, T.A., Davis, R.W. & Thiele, K.R. (8 May 2019), Of a different feather: two new species of featherheads from the Ptilotus macrocephalus (Amaranthaceae) complex. Australian Systematic Botany 32(1): 67 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Ptilotus macrocephalus (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Ptilotus macrocephalus (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate

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