Meisner, C.D.F. (1857), Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Botany 1: 45 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "in planitie arenosa prope Colbourne Springs. Drumm. coll. 6. n. 42!"

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 35 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 52 [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): 408 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 131 [secondary reference]

Keighery, G.J. (6 December 2002), A review of the genus Pileanthus (Myrtaceae). Nuytsia 15(1): 39, figs. 1a-d, 2a (map) [secondary reference]

• Type: "in planitie arenosa prope Colbourne Springs. Drumm. coll. 6. n. 42!" [Colbourn Salt Springs, near Arrowsmith River, Western Australia], 1850-1851, J. Drummond 6th coll., no. 42 " (iso: K, MEL).

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

taxonomic synonym: Pileanthus dilatatus (Drumm.) N.G.Marchant & Keighery manuscript name

• APC Dist.: WA

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