Hooker, J.D. in Hooker, W.J. (1847), Florae Tasmaniae Spicilegium: or, Contributions towards a Flora of Van Diemen's Land. London Journal of Botany 6: 283 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Lake St. Clair; Gunn"

Orchard, A.E. (31 January 1984), The Tasmanian species of Persoonia Smith (Proteaceae). Brunonia 6(2): 226 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "[Gunn] 1237/1842, Lake St Clair, 7.i.[18]41, K (Herbarium Hookerianum). photo! Isolectotypus: NSW 21280!"

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 491 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Persoonia muelleri (P.Parm.) Orchard var. muelleri legitimate

Weston, P.H. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Proteaceae subfam. 1. Persoonioideae. Flora of Australia 16: 69 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Persoonia muelleri (P.Parm.) Orchard legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Persoonia muelleri (P.Parm.) Orchard legitimate

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