Mueller, F.J.H. von (1853), Diagnoses et descriptiones plantarum novarum, quas in Nova Hollandia australi praecipue in regionibus interioribus. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 25: 424 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In pratis ante rivulum Rocky-creek rarum."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (18 September 1854), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the colony of Victoria. Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Victoria 1: 13 [secondary reference]

Johnston, I.M. (1928), I. Studies in the Boraginaceae - VII. Contributions of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 81: 78 [basionym]

basionym of: Plagiobothrys elachanthus (F.Muell.) I.M.Johnst. legitimate

Brand, A. in Engler, H.G.A. (1931), Das Pflanzenreich 97: 113 [basionym]

basionym of: Allocarya elachantha (F.Muell.) Brand legitimate

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 715 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Plagiobothrys elachanthus (F.Muell.) I.M.Johnst. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 90 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Plagiobothrys elachanthus (F.Muell.) I.M.Johnst. legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Boraginaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 363 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Plagiobothrys elachanthus (F.Muell.) I.M.Johnst. legitimate

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Boraginaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 396 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Plagiobothrys elachanthus (F.Muell.) I.M.Johnst. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Heliotropium elacanthum Stanley orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Plagiobothrys elachanthus (F.Muell.) I.M.Johnst. legitimate

State Herbarium of South Australia (2007), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Plagiobothrys elachanthus (F.Muell.) I.M.Johnst. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Plagiobothrys elachanthus (F.Muell.) I.M.Johnst. legitimate

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