Briggs, B.G., Carolin, R.C. & Pulley, J.M. (13 December 1973), New species and lectotypification in Australian Plantago. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 4(7): 396 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "10 miles (16 km) NE. of Byrock, N.S.W., J. Thompson NSW 124895, 8.9.1969 (NSW upper left specimen on sheet)."

Briggs, B.G., Carolin, R.C. & Pulley, J.M. (1977), Plantaginaceae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 181: 30-32, Fig. 1(a) [secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Plantaginaceae, Campanulaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 349 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 617-619, Fig. 62a [secondary reference]

common name: Small Sago-weed [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 175 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 154 [secondary reference]

Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 140 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Plantaginaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 472 [secondary reference]

Briggs, B.G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Plantaginaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 597 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Plantaginaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 471, Fig. 92c [secondary reference]

common name: Crowned Plantain [n/a]

CHAH (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Plantago varia R.Br. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (May 1931), Part III. Geraniaceae–Compositae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 121 pro parte misapplication: Plantago varia R.Br. legitimate by Grieve, B.J. & Blackall, W.E. (1975), How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the temperate regions of Western Australia 4: 655

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, Qld, NSW (native and naturalised), Vic

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