Richard, A. in Lesson, A. & Richard, A. (1832), Essai d'une Flore de la Nouvelle-Zelande. Voyage de Decouvertes de l'Astrolabe. Botanique 1: 334 [comb. nov.]

• Type: "Crescit in Novae-Zeelandiae loco dicto havre de l'Astrolabe."

basionym: Leptospermum perforatum J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Melaleuca perforata (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) G.Forst. legitimate

Oliver, W. (31 August 1928), The New Zealand species of Metrosideros with a note on Metrosideros collina (Forst.) Gray. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 59: 421 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Leptospermum perforatum J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Melaleuca perforata (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) G.Forst. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Metrosideros scandens Sol. ex Gaertn. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Metrosideros buxifolia A.Cunn. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Metrosideros vesiculata Colenso legitimate taxonomic synonym: Metrosideros tenuifolia Colenso legitimate

• Text: "Not Leptospermum scandens Forst. Char. Gen. 72,1776."
• Text: "I have myself examined Forster's type of Melaleuca perforata, and found it to agree with the plant known to New Zealand botanists as Metrosideros scandens. Gaertner's Metrosideros scandens, which should not be confused with Forster's Leptospermum scandens, is shown by Gaertner's plate reproduced herewith, to be the present species."

Thompson, J. (8 December 1989), A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 442 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Leptospermum perforatum J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. legitimate

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