Meisner, C.D.F. (1857), Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Botany 1: 38 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "to the east and west of the Hill River. Drummond, coll. 6. n. 50!"

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 20 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 51 [secondary reference]

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35(2-3): 402 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 133 [secondary reference]

George, A.S. (30 June 1991), New taxa, combinations and typifications in Verticordia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae). Nuytsia 7(3): 312 [secondary reference]

• Type: south-western Western Australia, 1850/51, J. Drummond 6: 50 (holo: NY; iso: BM, CGE, E, FI, K, MEL, NSW, W).

George, A.S. (30 June 1991), New taxa, combinations and typifications in Verticordia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae). Nuytsia 7(3): 312 [basionym]

basionym of: Verticordia densiflora var. stelluligera (Meisn.) A.S.George legitimate

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