Dumont de Courset, G.L.M. (1811), Le Botaniste Cultivateur Edn. 2, 5: 374 [no. 11] [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Id." [i.e. "La Nouvelle-Hollande".]

• Comment: A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 1968 (1991), treats this name as illegitimate due to Dumont de Courset's citation of "M. thymifolia , Hortul.". However, this represents the publication of a new name by Dum.-Cours. and the reporting of prior misapplications of the name Melaleuca thymifolia Sm. to that taxon. Melaleuca thymifolia Sm. is treated separately in his work, also on page 374 (no. 15).

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 141 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Melaleuca pulchella R.Br. legitimate

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): 909 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Melaleuca thymifolia Sm. legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Melaleuca serpillifolia Dum.Cours. orth. var.

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

taxonomic synonym of: Melaleuca thymifolia Sm. legitimate

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