Fitzgerald, W.V. (1904), Additions to the West Australian Flora. Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society 2(1): 20 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Minginew, sand plains, Sept. 1903. – W.V.F."

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

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 347 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: WA

Rye, B.L. & Trudgen, M.E. (18 December 2012), Seven new combinations for Western Australian members of the Myrtaceae tribe Chamelaucieae. Nuytsia 22(6): 396 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Mingenew area, Western Australia [precise locality withheld for conservation reasons], September 1903, W.V. Fitzgerald s.n. (holo: NSW 498038; iso: PERTH 08245657 & 08245932)."

Rye, B.L. & Trudgen, M.E. (18 December 2012), Seven new combinations for Western Australian members of the Myrtaceae tribe Chamelaucieae. Nuytsia 22(6): 396 [basionym]

basionym of: Malleostemon decipiens (W.Fitzg.) Trudgen legitimate

Parker, C.M. & Biggs, L.J. (1 May 2014), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2013. Nuytsia 24: 53 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Malleostemon decipiens (W.Fitzg.) Trudgen legitimate

Wege, J.A. & Rye, B.L. (3 May 2024), Typifications in Malleostemon, Micromyrtus, Scholtzia and Thryptomene (Myrtaceae) and a hybrid designation. Nuytsia 35: 77 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: " 'Minginew [Mingenew], sand plains’, Western Australia, September 1903, W.V. Fitzgerald s.n. (lecto, here designated: PERTH 08245932! [ex Herb. C.A. Gardner]; isolecto: K 000821699 image! [comm. W.E. Blackall], NSW 498038!, PERTH 08245657! [ex Herb. C.A. Gardner])."

Wege, J.A. & Rye, B.L. (3 May 2024), Typifications in Malleostemon, Micromyrtus, Scholtzia and Thryptomene (Myrtaceae) and a hybrid designation. Nuytsia 35: 77 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Malleostemon decipiens (W.Fitzg.) Trudgen legitimate

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