Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 80 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, A. Cunningham; along the coast from Bremer Bay, to Experience Bay and inland from Cape Le Grande, Maxwell; Lucky Bay, R. Brown."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 53 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 120 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Myrtaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 381 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Astartea fascicularis (Labill.) DC. legitimate

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 346 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. (16 December 2006), New combinations and lectotypifications for the south-western Australian genus Astartea (Myrtaceae). Nuytsia 16(1): 153 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: inland from Cape Le Grand, [Western Australia], G. Maxwell )lecto: K, here designated: isolecto: MEL 725070)

Rye, B.L. (16 December 2006), New combinations and lectotypifications for the south-western Australian genus Astartea (Myrtaceae). Nuytsia 16(1): 153 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Astartea astarteoides (Benth.) Rye legitimate

Rye, B.L. (28 March 2013), A revision of the south-western Australian genus Astartea (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae). Nuytsia 23: 225 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Astartea astarteoides (Benth.) Rye legitimate

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