Brown, R. (1831), General view of the botany of the vicinity of Swan River. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 1: 19 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Metrosideros flexuosa Willd. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Leptospermum flexuosum (Willd.) Spreng. legitimate

• Comment: Reference to basionym indirect. Brown's statement that Billottia is "a genus distinct from Leptospermum" and the use of the epithet flexuosa is here considered to be a reference to Leptospermum flexuosum (Willd.) Spreng., and thus to the basionym Metrosideros flexuosa Willd.

Don, G. (ed.) in Sweet, R. (1839), Sweet's Hortus Britannicus Edn. 3: 249 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Metrosideros flexuosa Willd. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Leptospermum flexuosum (Willd.) Spreng. legitimate

Otto, C.F. & Dietrich, A.G. in Otto, C.F. & Dietrich, A.G. (ed.) (10 July 1841), Ueber die Leptospermum-Arten welche im hiefigen botanischen Garten kultivirt werden. Allgemeine Gartenzeitung 9(28): 218 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Metrosideros flexuosa Willd. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Leptospermum flexuosum (Willd.) Spreng. legitimate

Heynhold, G. (1846), Alphabetische und Synonymische Aufzahlung der in der Jahren 1840 bis 1846 in den europäischen Gärten eingeführten Gewächse nebst Angabe ihres Autors: 69 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Metrosideros flexuosa Willd. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Leptospermum flexuosum (Willd.) Spreng. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leptospermum resiniferum Bertol. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leptospermum glomeratum H.L.Wendl. legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. & Marchant, N.G. (23 November 2007), A revision of the Western Australian genus Agonis (Myrtaceae) and two new segregate genera Taxandria and Paragonis. Nuytsia 16(2): 400 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Agonis flexuosa (Willd.) Sweet legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Billiotia flexuosa Otto & A.Dietr. orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Agonis flexuosa (Willd.) Sweet legitimate

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