Hooker, J.D. in Hooker, W.J. (1847), Florae Tasmaniae Spicilegium: or, Contributions towards a Flora of Van Diemen's Land. London Journal of Botany 6: 277 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Lake St. Clair; Gunn"

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 153 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Plantago brownii Rapin nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Pilger, R.K.F. in Engler, H.G.A. (1937), Das Pflanzenreich 102: 121 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 564 [secondary reference]

Brown, M.J. in Banks, M.R., Smith, S.J., Orchard, A.E. & Kantvilas, G. (ed.) (1991), A synopsis of the genus Plantago L. in Tasmania. Aspects of Tasmanian Botany - a tribute to Winifred Curtis: 68 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Tas

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 63 [secondary reference]

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