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): 417-418 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "in distr. Coolgardie pr. Southern Cross in arenosis fruticulosis flor. m. Nov. (D. 5593)."

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: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

Rye, B.L. (7 July 2022), An expanded circumscription and revision of the Western Australian genus Balaustion (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae: Hysterobaeckeinae). Nuytsia 33: 183 [secondary reference]

• Neotype: "near Southern Cross, Western Australia, November [1901], L. Diels 5593 (holo: B n.v., presumably destroyed in WWII). Neotype: east of Southern Cross, Western Australia [precise locality withheld for conservation reasons], 30 September 1931, C.A. Gardner 2778 (neo: PERTH 03349705, here designated; isoneo: AD, CANB, K, MEL, NSW)."

• Etymology: "From the Latin grandis (large, great) and bracteatus (bracteate), because the typical variant has large bracteoles that enclose the mature flower buds and are often retained in fruit. ..."

Rye, B.L. (7 July 2022), An expanded circumscription and revision of the Western Australian genus Balaustion (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae: Hysterobaeckeinae). Nuytsia 33: 183 [basionym]

basionym of: Balaustion grandibracteatum (E.Pritz.) Rye legitimate

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