Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1838), Compositae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 6: 216 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In sylvaticis ad basin montium Peel's-range dictis in int. parte Novae Cambr. Austr. lat. grad. 34, junio flor. cl. Cunningham"

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 641 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Helipterum polygalifolium A.Cunn. ex DC. legitimate

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 694-695 [secondary reference]

common name: Ascending Sunray [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 80 [secondary reference]

Anonymous (1990), The 1989-90 Annual Report of the Botany Branch and the Queensland Herbarium. Botany Focus: 19 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Paul G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Rhodanthe. Flora of New South Wales 3: 220 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Rhodanthe diffusa (A.Cunn. ex DC.) Paul G.Wilson legitimate

Wilson, Paul G. (7 September 1992), The Classification of Australian species currently included in Helipterum and related genera (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae): Part 1. Nuytsia 8(3): 394 [basionym]

basionym of: Rhodanthe diffusa (A.Cunn. ex DC.) Paul G.Wilson legitimate

Moore, P. (2005), A guide to plants of inland Australia: 130 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Rhodanthe diffusa (A.Cunn. ex DC.) Paul G.Wilson legitimate

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