Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 415 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) v.v."

Sprengel, C.P.J. (1824), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 1: 816 [basionym]

basionym of: Trichinium conicum (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 28 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 397 [secondary reference]

Backer, C.A. (December 1949), Amaranthaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(2): 89 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Ptilotus amabilis Span. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Ptilotus conicus var. timorensis Engl. legitimate misapplication: Ptilotus corymbosus R.Br. legitimate by Blume, C.(K.)L. von (1825), Bijdragen tot de Flora van Nederlandsch Indie 9: 543 misapplication: Ptilotus corymbosus R.Br. legitimate by Miquel, F.A.W. (19 August 1858), Flora van Nederlandsch Indie 1-1(6): 1036-1037

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 322 [secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 226 [secondary reference]

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]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 73 [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, Fig. 31F [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Trichinium conicum (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Ptilotus conicus R.Br. var. conicus legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ptilotus amabilis Span. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Ptilotus conicus var. timorensis Engl. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT

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

Lally, T.R. (9 May 2013), Review of infraspecific taxa in Ptilotus gardneri and P. lophotrichus and lectotypification of P. conicus (Amaranthaceae). Nuytsia 23: 126-127 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (here chosen): BM 00895566 image seen).

nomenclatural synonym: Trichinium conicum (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ptilotus amabilis Span. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Ptilotus conicus var. timorensis Engl. legitimate

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