Bentham, G. in Endlicher, S.F.L., Fenzl, E., Bentham, G. & Schott, H.W. (April 1837), Compositae. Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in Sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus liber baro de Hügel: 66 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Ixiolaena viscosa Benth.

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 596 [secondary reference]

Baillon, H.E. (1882), Histoire des Plantes 8: 177 [basionym]

basionym of: Podotheca sect. Ixiolaena (Benth.) Baill. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 80 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. in Post, T. von & Kuntze, O. (1903), Lexikon Generum Phanerogamarum: 252 [basionym]

basionym of: Gnaphalium sect. Ixiolaena (Benth.) Kuntze legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 189-190, 197 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 267 [secondary reference]

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Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 628 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Apparently for Ixolaena, from Greek ixos, birdlime; laina, cloak: alluding to the sticky glandular covering of the original West Australian species I. viscosa."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 907 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 340 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 318 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 81 [secondary reference]

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

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 542 [secondary reference]

Anderberg, A.A. (1991), Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae). Opera Botanica 104: 58 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Ixiolaena. Flora of New South Wales 3: 228-229 [secondary reference]

common name: Plover-daisies [n/a] common name: Ixiolaenas [n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asteraceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 774-775 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 511 [secondary reference]

Anderberg, A.A., Baldwin, B.G., Bayer, R.G., Breitwieser, I., Jeffrey, C., Dillon, M.O., Eldenäs, P., Funk, V., Garcia-Jacas, N., Hind, D.J.N., Karis, P.O., Lack, H.W., Nesom, G., Nordenstam, B., Oberprieler, C., Panero, J.J., Puttock, C., Robinson, H., Stuessy, T.F., Susanna, A., Urtubey, E., Vogt, R., Ward, J. & Watson, L.E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Compositae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 8: 268 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 439 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Ixiochlaena T.Post & Kuntze orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Podotheca sect. Ixiolaena (Benth.) Baill. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Gnaphalium sect. Ixiolaena (Benth.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

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