Keighery, G.J. (6 December 2002), A review of the genus Pileanthus (Myrtaceae). Nuytsia 15(1): 48, figs. 3p-t, 4c (map) [tax. nov.]

• Type: "4 km west-north-west of Yerina Spring, 28°04'S, 114°19'E, Western Australia, 1 October 1979, J. Taylor 1047, M.D. Crisp & R. Jackson (holo: PERTH 02503921; iso: BISH, CANB)."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Pileanthus sp. Kalbarri (D. & B.Bellairs 1684) [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA

George, A.S. (December 2019), On orthography. Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 181: 40 [secondary reference]

• Text: "Pileanthus rubronitidus: from Latin ruber (red) + nitidus (shining); should be rubrinitidus."

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (24 June 2021), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2020. Nuytsia 32: 16 [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Pileanthus rubronitidus Keighery orth. var.

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