Gray, A. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1851), Characters of some Gnaphalioid Compositae of the Division Angiantheae [continued]. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 3: 173-174 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Swan River, Drummond."

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 559 [basionym]

basionym of: Myriocephalus gracilis (A.Gray) Benth. legitimate

Wilson, Paul G. (7 September 1992), The Classification of Australian species currently included in Helipterum and related genera (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae): Part 1. Nuytsia 8(3): 419 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Gilberta tenuifolia Turcz. legitimate

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