Moore, S. le M. (7 December 1920), A contribution to the Flora of Australia. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 45: 175 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Bruce Rock; Stoward, 315."

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

Trudgen, M.E. (21 February 1986), Reinstatement and revision of Rinzia Schauer (Myrtaceae, Leptospermeae, Baeckeinae). Nuytsia 5(3): 426 [basionym]

basionym of: Rinzia carnosa (S.Moore) Trudgen legitimate

Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5: 10 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Rinzia carnosa (S.Moore) Trudgen legitimate

Rye, B.L. (20 January 2017), An expanded circumscription and new infrageneric classification of Rinzia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae). Nuytsia 28: 57 [secondary reference]

• Type: "holo: BM 001015091; iso: MEL 72570)."

• Etymology: "From the Latin carnosus (fleshy) as this species has fleshy leaves."

Rye, B.L. (20 January 2017), An expanded circumscription and new infrageneric classification of Rinzia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae). Nuytsia 28: 57 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Rinzia carnosa (S.Moore) Trudgen legitimate

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