Druce, G.C. (1917), Nomenclatorial Notes: chiefly African and Australian. The Botanical Exchange Club and Society of the British Isles Report for 1916, Suppl. 2: 646 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Lasiopetalum arborescens W.T.Aiton legitimate

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 204 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 205 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Seringia platyphylla J.Gay nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Sterculiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 86, Fig. 11F [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Lasiopetalum arborescens W.T.Aiton legitimate taxonomic synonym: Seringia platyphylla J.Gay nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Sterculiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 309 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Sterculiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 309 [secondary reference]

Guymer, G.P. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Sterculiaceae. Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens: 192 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Lasiopetalum arborescens W.T.Aiton legitimate taxonomic synonym: Seringia platyphylla J.Gay nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Gaya platyphylla Spreng. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Seringea platyphylla F.Muell. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

Wilkins, C.F. & Whitlock, B.A. (10 May 2016), Seringia revised to include Keraudrenia (Lasiopetaleae: Malvaceae s.l.). Australian Systematic Botany 28(5,6): 280-283, 324, 325, Figs 3A, 6C (map), 8 APC [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "here designated: [annotation reverse side of sheet:] 1. Hort. Kewensis, grown from seed collected by George Caley. 2. Port Jackson. BM 000031067!."

nomenclatural synonym: Lasiopetalum arborescens W.T.Aiton legitimate taxonomic synonym: Seringia platyphylla J.Gay nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Seringia platyphylla J.Gay isonym taxonomic synonym: Gaya platyphylla Spreng. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Seringea platyphylla F.Muell. orth. var. common name: lofty fire-bush [n/a]

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

• Etymology: "From the Latin arborescens meaning ‘tree-like’ (Stearn 1983 [i.e. W.T.Stearn Botanical Latin new edn.(1983)]), pertaining to the tree-like habit of this species."

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