Mueller, F.J.H. von (October 1859), Report on the Plants Collected During Mr. Babbage's Expedition into the North West Interior of South Australia in 1858. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly 3(1): 14 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Pteropogon pygmaeum DC. legitimate

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 647 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pteropogon pygmaeum DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pteropogon australis Nees nom. illeg.

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

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3: 5 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (13 May 1889), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 4: 6 [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: 625 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 903 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 690-691 [secondary reference]

common name: Pigmy Paper-daisy [n/a] common name: Pigmy 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: 407 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pteropogon pygmaeum DC. legitimate common name: Pigmy sunray [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 167 [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): 137 [secondary reference]

common name: Pigmy sunray [n/a]

Wilson, Paul G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Rhodanthe. Flora of New South Wales 3: 218 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Rhodanthe pygmaea (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): 398 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Rhodanthe pygmaea (DC.) Paul G.Wilson legitimate

Short, P.S. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Rhodanthe. Flora of Victoria 4: 756 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Rhodanthe pygmaea (DC.) Paul G.Wilson legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Rhodanthe pygmaea (DC.) Paul G.Wilson legitimate

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