Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 648 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Gnaphalium moschatum A.Cunn. ex DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Calocephalus gnaphalioides Hook. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Monencyanthes gnaphalioides (Hook.) A.Gray legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 81 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 193 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 266 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 627 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 905-906 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Gnaphalium moschatum A.Cunn. ex DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Calocephalus gnaphalioides Hook. legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 264 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 696 [secondary reference]

common name: Sunray [n/a] common name: Musk Sunray [n/a]

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

Lapinpuro, L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Helichrysum, Helipterum. Flora of Central Australia: 409 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Gnaphalium moschatum A.Cunn. ex DC. legitimate common name: Musk sunray [n/a]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 11 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1987), Native Plants of Queensland 3: 162 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Paul G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Rhodanthe. Flora of New South Wales 3: 221 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Rhodanthe moschata (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): 385 [nomenclatural synonym]

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

Short, P.S. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Rhodanthe. Flora of Victoria 4: 753 [nomenclatural synonym]

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

Moore, P. (2005), A guide to plants of inland Australia: 131 [nomenclatural synonym]

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

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

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

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