Mueller, F.J.H. von (1862), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 3(21): 112 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In plagis aridis ad flumen Murchison. Oldfield."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 56 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 121 [secondary reference]

Hawkeswood, T.J. (23 December 1987), A taxonomic revision of the genus Calothamnus Labill. (Myrtaceae: Leptospermoideae). Part 1. The 4-merous species. Nuytsia 6(1): 77 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Calothamnus sanguineus Labill. legitimate

Hopper, S.D., van Leeuwen, S.J., Brown, A.P. & Patrick, S.J. (1990), Western Australia's Endangered Flora: 109, 124 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Calothamnus sanguineus Labill. legitimate

George, A.S. (29 September 2010), Calothamnus (Myrtaceae): precursor paper to Flora of Australia. Nuytsia 20: 184 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: 'In plagis aridis ad flumen Murchison. Oldfield' [i.e. On arid plains towards the Murchison River, Western Australia, A. Oldfield] (lecto, here chosen: MEL 105166).

orthographic variant: Calothamnus blepharanthera F.Muell. orth. var.

George, A.S. (29 September 2010), Calothamnus (Myrtaceae): precursor paper to Flora of Australia. Nuytsia 20: 184 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Calothamnus sanguineus Labill. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Calothamnus sanguineus Labill. legitimate

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