Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 77 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "W. Australia. E. of King George's Sound, Baxter; Middle Mount Barren, Maxwell; Lucky Bay, R. Brown."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 53 [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: 349 [secondary reference]

Trudgen, M.E. & Rye, B.L. (16 December 2005), Astus, a new Western Australian genus of Myrtaceae with heterocarpidic fruits. Nuytsia 15(3): 508 [basionym]

basionym of: Astus tetragonus (Benth.) Trudgen & Rye legitimate

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