Hooker, J.D. (28 July 1857), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 1(4): 266, t. LXXXIII [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Gunn, 2050 ... Mount Sorrell, Macquarrie Harbour, elev. 3000 feet, Milligan.– (Fl. Jan.)"

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1858), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 1(2): 38-39 [basionym]

basionym of: Cystanthe milliganii (Hook.f.) F.Muell. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1867), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(42): 69 [basionym]

basionym of: Richea milliganii (Hook.f.) F.Muell. legitimate

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 259 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Richea milliganii (Hook.f.) F.Muell. legitimate

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 125 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Richea milliganii (Hook.f.) F.Muell. legitimate

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 458 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Richea milliganii (Hook.f.) F.Muell. legitimate

Menadue, Y. & Crowden, R.K. (9 November 2000), Taxonomic revision of Richea R.Br. (Epacridaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 13(5): 777 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Mt Sorrell, Macquarie Harbour, VDL, elev. 3000 ft, 15.i.1847, J.Milligan 806 (K!) (specimen on far right hand side of sheet).

Menadue, Y. & Crowden, R.K. (9 November 2000), Taxonomic revision of Richea R.Br. (Epacridaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 13(5): 777 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Richea milliganii (Hook.f.) F.Muell. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Pilitis milligani Hook.f. orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Richea milliganii (Hook.f.) F.Muell. legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 40 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Richea milliganii (Hook.f.) F.Muell. legitimate

Venter, S. (4 January 2021), A taxonomic revision of the Australasian genera Dracophyllum and Richea (Richeeae: Styphelioideae: Ericaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 34: 169 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Dracophyllum tasmanicum S.Venter legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Dracophyllum tasmanicum S.Venter legitimate

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