Benl, G. (15 May 1959), Beitrag zu einer revision der Gattung Ptilotus R.Br. (Amaranthaceae) 2. Teil. Mitteilungen der Botanischen Staatssammlung Munchen 3: 36 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Trichinium gracile R.Br. legitimate

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]

nomenclatural synonym: Trichinium gracile R.Br. legitimate

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: 128 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Trichinium gracile R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Ptilotus gracilis (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Trichinium fusiforme var. gracile (R.Br.) Domin legitimate

• APC Comment: A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 2446 (1991) stated that Poiret did not validly make the combination Ptilotus gracilis. However, under Article 33.1 of the 2006 (Vienna) edition of the ICBN, this name is considered to be validly published.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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

Bean, A.R. (11 November 2008), A synopsis of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae) in eastern Australia. Telopea 12(2): 235 [taxonomic synonym]

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

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