Benl, G. (1970), Mitteilungen der Botanischen Staatssammlung Munchen 7: 310, fig. [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ca. 14 km north of Eringa Homestead (Eringa Homestead ca. 155 km north-north-west of Oodnadatta), S.A., far north; E.A. Shaw no. 490, 11.IX.1966. M. ---Isotypus: AD (96 642 224)."

Jessop, J.P. (19 December 1977), Endangered species in the South Australian native vascular flora. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 1(2): 136 [secondary reference]

Benl, G. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Ptilotus. Flora of Central Australia: 81 [secondary reference]

Benl, G. (5 April 1984), Five new taxa in Ptilotus R.Br. (Amaranthaceae) from the Northern Territory. Muelleria 5(4): 259 [basionym]

basionym of: Ptilotus aristatus var. eichlerianus (Benl) Benl & H.Eichler legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Ptilotus aristatus var. eichlerianus (Benl) Benl & H.Eichler legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Ptilotus aristatus var. eichlerianus (Benl) Benl & H.Eichler legitimate

Albrecht, D.E. & Lally, T.R. (20 December 2010), A reappraisal of Ptilotus aristatus and P. blackii (Amaranthaceae). Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 24: 12 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Ptilotus aristatus Benl subsp. aristatus legitimate

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