Hooker, J.D. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1840), Icones Plantarum 4: t. 308 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Hab. Rocks on the summit of Mount Wellington and other mountains in Van Dieman's Land, at an elevation of 3000 feet above sea level. Mr. Lawrence. Fraser. R. Gunn, Esq. (n. 295.) New Zealand. Fraser in Herb. Hook."

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 108 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 54 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 53 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 198 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 202 [secondary reference]

Thompson, J. (8 December 1989), A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 408-409, map 8-52 APC [secondary reference]

• Type: "SYNTYPES: TASMANIA: Summit of Mt Wellington and other mountains in Van Diemen's Land, Lawrence, Fraser, R.Gunn n 295 (K, n.v.). In NSW there are specimens from Mt Wellington, Gunn 295/1842,dated 28.9.39, 31.1.40 and 30.10.40."

taxonomic synonym: Leptospermum humifusum S.Schauer nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Leptospermum scoparium var. microphyllum S.Schauer legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leptospermum grandifolium var. compactum Miq. legitimate

• APC Dist.: Tas

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 59 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Leptospermum humifusum W.M.Curtis nom. inval.

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