White, C.T. (1939), Contributions to the Queensland Flora, No. 6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 50: 85 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Mount Spurgeon, C.T. White, 10621 (nearly mature flowers and seed capsules – mostly open), Sept., 1936 (large tree in rain-forest) ... Type in Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane. Co-type specimens at Arnold Arboretum, U.S.A., and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Eng.)"

Briggs, B.G., Hyland, B.P.M. & Johnson, L.A.S. (1975), Sphalmium, a distrinctive genus of Proteaceae from north Queensland. Australian Journal of Botany 23(1): 166 [basionym]

basionym of: Sphalmium racemosum (C.T.White) B.G.Briggs, B.Hyland & L.A.S.Johnson legitimate

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 514 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Sphalmium racemosum (C.T.White) B.G.Briggs, B.Hyland & L.A.S.Johnson legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Orites racemosa C.T.White orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Sphalmium racemosum (C.T.White) B.G.Briggs, B.Hyland & L.A.S.Johnson legitimate

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