Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 86 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown."

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

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): 419 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 121 [secondary reference]

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

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 690 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: WA

Rye, B.L. (9 December 2021), Austrobaeckea, a new south-western Australian genus of Myrtaceae (Chamelaucieae: Hysterobaeckeinae). Nuytsia 32: 190 [secondary reference]

• Type: "King George Sound, Western Australia, December 1801, R. Brown s.n. (holo: K 000821686; iso: BM 000889768, K 000821687, possibly also CANB 278743)."

• Etymology: "From the Latin pygmaeus (dwarf), referring to the small habit"

Rye, B.L. (9 December 2021), Austrobaeckea, a new south-western Australian genus of Myrtaceae (Chamelaucieae: Hysterobaeckeinae). Nuytsia 32: 190 [basionym]

basionym of: Austrobaeckea pygmaea (R.Br. ex Benth.) Rye legitimate

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (21 March 2023), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2022. Nuytsia 34: 6 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrobaeckea pygmaea (R.Br. ex Benth.) Rye legitimate

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