Meisner, C.D.F. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1856), Proteaceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 14(1): 424 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In monte Sorrel, prope Macquarie Harbour Tasmanniae occidentalis (Milligan, n. 739!)"

• Comment: Meisner attributes this name to "Meisn. in Hook. Journ. 1852, p. 209" [i.e. C.D.F.Meisner, Hooker's J. Bot. & Kew Gard. Misc. 4: 209 (1852)], where it is given without a description as "Orites milligani".

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 81 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 68 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 168 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 604 [secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 473 (fig., map) [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Named in honour of Dr Joseph Milligan (1807-83), Scottish-born surgeon who collected plants in Tas between 1830 and 1860."

George, A.S. & Hyland, B.P.M. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Orites. Flora of Australia 16: 349, 351, Map 401 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Orites milligani Meisn. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Orites milligani Meisn. nom. inval., nom. nud.

• APC Dist.: Tas

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 66 [secondary reference]

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