Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(49): 231 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Trichinium helipteroides F.Muell. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 28, 141 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1921), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 636 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Trichinium helipteroides F.Muell. legitimate

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 328 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Trichinium helipteroides F.Muell. 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]

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1: 246 [secondary reference]

common name: Woolly Tails [n/a]

Benl, G. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Ptilotus. Flora of Central Australia: 80 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Trichinium helipteroides F.Muell. legitimate common name: Hairy mulla mulla [n/a]

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

Moore, P. (2005), A guide to plants of inland Australia: 237 (photo, map) [secondary reference]

common name: Hairy Mulla Mulla [n/a]

• Etymology: helipteroides: like Helipterum.

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

nomenclatural synonym: Trichinium helipteroides F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trichinium brachytrichum F.Muell. legitimate common name: Woolly Tails [n/a] common name: Hairy Mulla Mulla [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld

Bean, A.R. (11 November 2008), A synopsis of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae) in eastern Australia. Telopea 12(2): 236 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Trichinium helipteroides F.Muell. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Trichinium helipteroides F.Muell. var. helipteroides legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Ptilotus helipteroides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. var. helipteroides legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Trichinium helipteroides F.Muell. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Trichinium helipteroides F.Muell. var. helipteroides legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Ptilotus helipteroides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. var. helipteroides legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trichinium brachytrichum F.Muell. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld

Barker, R.M. & Lang, P.J. (10 July 2012), Name changes associated with the South Australian census of vascular plants for the calendar year 2011. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 25: 99 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Ptilotus helipteroides (F.Muell.) F.Muell. var. helipteroides legitimate

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