Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1882), Definitions of some new Australian plants. Southern Science Record 2: 274 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Near the Gascoyne-River; Polak."

• Etymology: "... it will be remarkable in the whole genus by its scanty fertility, though semi-sterile flowerheads occur also in the section Acroclinium..."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 140 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 309 [basionym]

basionym of: Argyrocome sterilescens (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

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

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): 410 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Gascoyne River, W.A., 1882, Pollack (holo: MEL 110428; iso: PERTH)."

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): 410 [basionym]

basionym of: Rhodanthe sterilescens (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson legitimate

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