Hooker, J.D. in Hooker, W.J. (1847), Florae Tasmaniae Spicilegium: or, Contributions towards a Flora of Van Diemen's Land. London Journal of Botany 6: 476, bis [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Hab. Campbell Town and Oyster Bay; Gunn."

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 160 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Melaleuca halmaturorum F.Muell. ex Miq. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 56 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 241 [basionym]

basionym of: Myrtoleucodendron pustulatum (Hook.f.) Kuntze legitimate

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 54 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 142 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 407 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Melaleuca halmaturorum F.Muell. ex Miq. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 806 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Melaleuca halmaturorum F.Muell. ex Miq. legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 160

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 201 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 205 [secondary reference]

Byrnes, N.B. (24 July 1986), A revision of Melaleuca L. (Myrtaceae) in northern and eastern Australia, 3. Austrobaileya 2(3): 267-268 [secondary reference]

Craven, L.A. & Lepschi, B.J. (21 December 1999), Enumeration of the species and infraspecific taxa of Melaleuca (Myrtaceae) occurring in Australia and Tasmania. Australian Systematic Botany 12(6): 899 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Myrtoleucodendron pustulatum (Hook.f.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Dist.: Tas

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

misapplied to: Melaleuca halmaturorum F.Muell. ex Miq. legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 160

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 59 [secondary reference]

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