Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 580 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Pycnosorus globosus F.L.Bauer ex Benth. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 83 [secondary reference]

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

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 188 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 268 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 651 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 932 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 706-707 [secondary reference]

common name: Drumsticks [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 76 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Compositae (Craspedia to Actinobole). Flora of Central Australia: 387 [secondary reference]

Cooke, D.A. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Compositae (Asteraceae). Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 3: 1510 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 547 [secondary reference]

Doust, A.N. & Everett, J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Pycnosorus. Flora of New South Wales 3: 262 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Pycnosorus globosus F.L.Bauer ex Benth. legitimate

Everett, J. & Doust, A.N.L. (ed.) (30 September 1992), New species and new combinations in Pycnosorus (Asteraceae - Gnaphalieae). Telopea 5(1): 39 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Pycnosorus globosus F.L.Bauer ex Benth. legitimate

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asteraceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 766 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Pycnosorus globosus F.L.Bauer ex Benth. legitimate

Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4: 124 [secondary reference]

Jessup, L.W. (22 April 2002), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 2 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Pycnosorus globosus F.L.Bauer ex Benth. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Pycnosorus globosus F.L.Bauer ex Benth. legitimate

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

misapplied to: Pycnosorus chrysanthus (Schltdl.) Sond. legitimate by Cooke, D.A. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Compositae (Asteraceae). Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 3: 1510

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