Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 352 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 167 [secondary reference]

Don, D. (1834), Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 17: 152 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Erica cinerea L.

Ewart, A.J. (1917), Contributions to the Flora of Australia, No. 25. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 29(2): 145 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 664 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek ereike, Latin erice, heath."

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 334 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 418-419 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 482 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 114 [secondary reference]

Williams, J.B. & Chapman, A.R. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Ericaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 400 [secondary reference]

common name: Heaths [n/a]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Ericaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 511, 513 [secondary reference]

Stevens, P.F. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Ericaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 6: 173 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 313 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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