Burret, K.E.M. (1941), Myrtaceen-Studien. Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 15(3): 547-548 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

McVaugh, R. (1956), Nomenclatural notes on Myrtaceae and related families. Taxon 5: 145 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Pilidiostigma glabrum Burret

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 168 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Myrtaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 208-209 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Myrtaceae - Melaleuca to Pilidostigma. Flora of New South Wales 2: 197 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Pilidiostigma. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 231 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 350 [secondary reference]

Snow, N. (2004), Systematics of Pilidiostigma (Myrtaceae). Systematic Botany 29(2): 394-395 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 666 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Philidiostigma K.A.W.Williams orth. var.

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

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