Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 927 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in India."

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

taxonomic synonym: Sphaeranthus hirtus Willd. legitimate

• Comment: Mueller lists "Sphaeranthos hirtus = S. Indicus, ...". Since Sphaeranthus hirtus Willd. (as Sphaeranthos) was previously accepted by Mueller on p. 79 of the Systematic Census (1882), Sphaeranthus indicus L. (as Sphaeranthos) is here treated as being a newly-accepted name in this Supplement with S. hirtus in synonymy.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 134 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 619 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Sphaeranthus hirtus Willd. legitimate

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 896 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Sphaeranthus hirtus Willd. legitimate

Ross-Craig, S. (1962), Hooker's Icones Plantarum 36: 21-23 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Sphaeranthus hirtus Willd. legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 265 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Compositae (Asteraceae) - most genera. Flora of Central Australia: 394-395, Fig. 510 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Sphaeranthus hirtus Willd. legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 170 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 12 [secondary reference]

Wilson, A.J.G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Minuria - Xanthium. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 954-956, Fig. 289G, 290D [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Asteraceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 186, Fig. 3, 36 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Sphaeranthus hirtus Willd. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld

Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Sphaeranthus. Flora of Australia 37: 422, map [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Sphaeranthus hirtus Willd. legitimate common name: Minty Pom-poms [n/a]

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