Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 994 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europae australioris asperis."

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): cvii [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 434 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1873), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(60): 34 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 44 [secondary reference]

Anderson, R.H. (8 August 1939), The naturalised flora of New South Wales (excluding Gramineae). Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 1(1): 22 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 398, Fig. 561 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Sanguisorba minor Scop. legitimate common name: Salad Burnet [n/a] common name: Sheep's Burnet [n/a]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 169 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Poterium dictyocarpum Spach legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Rosaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 239 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Sanguisorba minor Scop. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Sanguisorba minor Scop. legitimate by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 44

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Sanguisorba minor Scop. legitimate by Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 398, Fig. 561

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Sanguisorba minor Scop. legitimate by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 44

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Sanguisorba minor Scop. legitimate by Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 398, Fig. 561

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 71 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Sanguisorba minor Scop. legitimate by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 44

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