Schauer, J.C. (1843), Monographia Myrtacearum Xerocarpicarum: 193, t. 3 A [tax. nov.]

• Type: "on Peel's Island, Moreton-Bay, lat. Austr. 27½°, Septembri M. 1824: A. Cgh.! H.s."; "Queensland. Peel Island, Moreton Bay, ix.1824, Cunningham s.n. (W,holo n.v.; K, iso.)." (ref. L.A.Craven & S.R.Jones, Austral. Syst. Bot. 4(3) (1991) 527.

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 16 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Homoranthus flavescens A.Cunn. ex Schauer legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(80): 176 [basionym]

basionym of: Darwinia virgata (A.Cunn. ex Schauer) F.Muell. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 181 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 166 [secondary reference]

Byrnes, N.B. (7 May 1981), Notes on the genus Homoranthus. Austrobaileya 1(4): 373 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Myrtaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 121 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Myrtaceae - Melaleuca to Pilidostigma. Flora of New South Wales 2: 188 [secondary reference]

Craven, L.A. & Jones, S.R. (30 October 1991), A taxonomic review of Homoranthus and two new species of Darwinia (both Myrtaceae, Chamelaucieae). Australian Systematic Botany 4(3): 527, fig. 2 (map) [secondary reference]

• Type: Queensland. Peel Island, Moreton Bay, ix.1824, Cunningham s.n. (W, holo. n.v.; K, iso.).

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Homoranthus. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 220 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Darwinia virgata (A.Cunn. ex Schauer) F.Muell. legitimate

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

Copeland, L.M., Craven, L.A. & Bruhl, J.J. (21 December 2011), A taxonomic review of Homoranthus (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae). Australian Systematic Botany 24(6): 356, 358, Figs. 6, 7 (maps) [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Darwinia virgata (A.Cunn. ex Schauer) F.Muell. legitimate

Copeland, L.M., Craven, L.A. & Bruhl, J.J. (21 December 2011), A taxonomic review of Homoranthus (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae). Australian Systematic Botany 24(6): 358 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Homoranthus flavescens A.Cunn. ex Schauer legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 16

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Homoranthus flavescens A.Cunn. ex Schauer legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 16

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