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): 12 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Throughout the greater portion of the tropical interior of Australia."

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 528 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1881), Plants of North-Western Australia. Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council: 9 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 79 [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: 180 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 263, Fig. 233 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 95 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 309 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 684 [secondary reference]

common name: Pink Plains-bush [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 84 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Compositae (Asteraceae) - most genera. Flora of Central Australia: 397 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 169 [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]

Williams, K.A.W. (1987), Native Plants of Queensland 3: 258 [secondary reference]

Porteners, M.F. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Pluchea. Flora of New South Wales 3: 202 [secondary reference]

common name: Pink Plains-Bush [n/a]

Wilson, A.J.G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Minuria - Xanthium. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 949, Fig. 286Y, 290A [secondary reference]

Hunger, S. (1996), The Pluchea tetranthera complex (Compositae, Plucheeae) from Australia. Willdenowia 26: 274-276, Figs 1, 2 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (designated here): [Northern Territory], fluvium Victoria, 9.1855, F. Mueller (MEL 1621092).

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 66 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Pluchea tetranthera F.Muell. var. tetranthera legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Pluchea. Flora of Australia 37: 415, map [secondary reference]

Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Pluchea. Flora of Australia 37: 415 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Pluchea dunlopii Hunger legitimate by Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 684

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (August 2017), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2016 census to 2017 census. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2017: 19 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pluchea tetranthera F.Muell. var. tetranthera legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Pluchea dunlopii Hunger legitimate by Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 684

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Pluchea dunlopii Hunger legitimate by Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 684

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Pluchea dunlopii Hunger legitimate by Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 84

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Pluchea dunlopii Hunger legitimate by Porteners, M.F. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Pluchea. Flora of New South Wales 3: 202

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