Mueller, F.J.H. von (1859), Some hitherto unknown Australian plants. Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria 3: 44 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "On the sandy or gravelly banks of the Roper, Limmen Bight and Macarthur rivers, also on sometimes inundated localities of neighbouring plains."

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 138 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 55 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (10 March 1884), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 1: 4 [secondary reference]

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

basionym of: Myrtoleucodendron symphyocarpum (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 187 [secondary reference]

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 324 [secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 272 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 252 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1: 190 [secondary reference]

Byrnes, N.B. (29 August 1985), A revision of Melaleuca L. (Myrtaceae) in northern and eastern Australia, 2. Austrobaileya 2(2): 140 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 55 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1987), Native Plants of Queensland 3: 204 [secondary reference]

Craven, L.A. (1989), Reinstatement and revision of Asteromyrtus (Myrtaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 1(4): 383 [secondary reference]

• Type: Australia. Northern Territory: Gulf of Carpentaria, Mueller s.n. (MEL, holo.).

Craven, L.A. (1989), Reinstatement and revision of Asteromyrtus (Myrtaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 1(4): 383 [basionym]

basionym of: Asteromyrtus symphyocarpa (F.Muell.) Craven legitimate

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 152 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Asteromyrtus symphyocarpa (F.Muell.) Craven legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Asteromyrtus symphyocarpa (F.Muell.) Craven legitimate

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