Sprengel, C.P.J. (1824), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 1: 824 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Philoxerus conicus R.Br. legitimate

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

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3: 4 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 404 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1921), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 643 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Iresine conica (R.Br.) Moq. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Philoxerus conicus R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gomphrena breviflora 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]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 72 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 5 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Amaranthaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 116, Fig. 28E [secondary reference]

Palmer, J. (31 March 1998), A taxonomic revision of Gomphrena (Amaranthaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 11(1): 106-107, Fig. 23 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Philoxerus conicus R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Iresine conica (R.Br.) Moq. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Xeraea conica (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT

Palmer, J. (31 March 1998), A taxonomic revision of Gomphrena (Amaranthaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 11(1): 104 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Gomphrena breviflora F.Muell. legitimate by Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Amaranthaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 116, Fig. 28E

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

misapplied to: Gomphrena breviflora F.Muell. legitimate by Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Amaranthaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 116, Fig. 28E

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