Deane, H. & Maiden, J.H. (1899), Observations on the eucalypts of New South Wales, Part V. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 24(3): 451, t. xxxix [tax. nov.]

• Type: "This species has a very limited range, so far as is known at present, having been found only in the neighbourhood of Hill Top, about 70 miles south of Sydney."

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 137 [secondary reference]

common name: Grey Box [n/a]

Maiden, J.H. (1915), A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus 3(4): 76-78, pl 103 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 281, 287 [secondary reference]

common name: Coastal White Box [n/a]

Hall, N. (1970), Forest Tree Series 9: [unnumbered page] [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 162 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Eucalyptus. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 186, Fig. 27G [secondary reference]

common name: White Topped Box [n/a] common name: Soft White Box [n/a]

Chippendale, G.M. in George, A.S. (ed.) (27 June 1988), Eucalyptus. Flora of Australia 19: 352, Fig. 95E-F, Map 440 [secondary reference]

common name: White-topped Box [n/a]

Hill, K.D. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Flora of New South Wales 2: 108 [secondary reference]

common name: White-topped Box [n/a]

Robson, Peter J. (1993), Checklist of Australian Trees: alphabetical listings of common and scientific names: - [secondary reference]

common name: White topped Box [n/a] common name: White Box [n/a] common name: Soft White Box [n/a] common name: Grey Box [n/a]

Brooker, M.I.H., Connors, J.R. & Slee, A.V. (2000), EUCLID: Eucalypts of south-eastern Australia Edn. Revised: - [secondary reference]

common name: White-topped box [n/a] common name: Coastal white box [n/a]

Brooker, M.I.H. (28 February 2000), A new classification of the genus Eucalyptus L'Her. (Myrtaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 13(1): 116 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

Hill, K.D. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Eucalyptus. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 128 [secondary reference]

common name: White-topped Box [n/a]

Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research (2006), EUCLID Edn. 3: - [secondary reference]

common name: Coastal white box [n/a] common name: White-topped box [n/a]

Bean, A.R. (26 October 2009), Typification of some names in Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae), Part 1. Telopea 12(3): 318 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: New South Wales. Hill Top, Box Knob, J.H. Maiden s.n., January 1896 (lecto NSW [NSW317818], here designated; isolecto NSW [NSW317817, NSW317819 & NSW317820].

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