Mueller, F.J.H. von (1853), Diagnoses et descriptiones plantarum novarum, quas in Nova Hollandia australi praecipue in regionibus interioribus. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 25: 436 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In proximitate portus Lincoln detexit amic. Wilhelmi."

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 211 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Ptilotus beckeri F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 326 [basionym]

basionym of: Ptilotus beckerianus (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex J.M.Black legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Ptilotus beckerianus (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex J.M.Black legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Ptilotus beckerianus (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex J.M.Black legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Ptilotus beckerianus (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex J.M.Black legitimate

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