Benl, G. (31 August 1971), Ein Bestimmungsschlüssel für die Gattung Ptilotus R. Br. (Amaranthaceae). Mitteilungen der Botanischen Staatssammlung Munchen 9: 171 [autonym]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 233 [secondary reference]

Benl, G. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Ptilotus. Flora of Central Australia: 82 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 6 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Amaranthaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 124 [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 57-58 [secondary reference]

common name: Weeping Mulla Mulla [n/a]

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Bean, A.R. (11 November 2008), A synopsis of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae) in eastern Australia. Telopea 12(2): 232 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Ptilotus calostachyus F.Muell. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Ptilotus calostachyus F.Muell. legitimate

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