Brown, R. in Sims, J. (1824), Botanical Magazine 51: t. 2459 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "discovered by ROBERT BROWN, Esq. in 1804, growing plentifully near the shores of Port Hunter (on the Coal River) in New South Wales. ... Our specimens were communicated by EDWARD FORSTER, Esq. in August 1823. ... It was raised from seeds received from New South Wales, without name, but marked native of Bathurst Plains."

Sprengel, C.P.J. (1827), Curae Posteriores. Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 4(2): 300 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Ixodia ammobium Spreng. nom. illeg.

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 583 [secondary reference]

Baillon, H.E. (1882), Histoire des Plantes 8: 302 [basionym]

basionym of: Helichrysum alatum (R.Br.) Baill. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 82 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (May 1888), Supplement to the enumeration of Victorian plants, comprising the species added since Part II. of the key to the system of our native vegetation was published, with addition of a few species inadvertently before omitted. The Victorian Naturalist 5(1): 14 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 203 [secondary reference]

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

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 80, 230 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Additions and Corrections. Flora of South Australia 4: 698 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 343 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 71 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 544, Fig. 76E [secondary reference]

Anderberg, A.A. (1991), Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae). Opera Botanica 104: 85 [secondary reference]

Brown, E.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Ammobium. Flora of New South Wales 3: 251-252 [secondary reference]

Anderberg, A.A. (30 September 1992), In defence of the transfer of Nablonium to Ammobium (Asteraceae-Gnaphalieae), a reply to Orchard. Telopea 5(1): 13-19 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asteraceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 732, Fig. 142c [secondary reference]

common name: Winged Everlasting [n/a]

Stuessy, T.F. & Konig, C. (2008), Patrocladistic classification. Taxon 57(2): 596 [secondary reference]

Horandl, E. & Stuessy, T.F. (2010), Classification of paraphyletic groups. Taxon 59(6): 1646 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Ixodia ammobium Spreng. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Helichrysum alatum (R.Br.) Baill. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Ammobium alatum R.Br. f. alatum legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ammobium spathulatum Gaudich. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ammobium alatum f. grandiflorum Siebert & Voss legitimate

• APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), Qld, NSW (native and naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic, Tas (naturalised)

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 9 [secondary reference]

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