Desfontaines, R.L. (1818), Description de quatre nouveaux genres de plantes. Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle 4: 253, t. 14 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Cet arbrisseau croît à la nouvelle Galle ... de l'expedition du capitaine Baudin. L'Herbier du Muséum en possède plusieurs individus garnis de fleurs et de fruits."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 18 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 32 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 595 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Caletia ericoides (Desf.) Kuntze legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 63 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 473 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 211 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 117 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 426 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Caletia ericoides (Desf.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Phyllanthus lhotzkyanus Hochst. ex Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Micrantheum boroniaceum F.Muell. legitimate

James, T.A. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 402 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000), Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1: 58 [secondary reference]

James, T.A. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 402 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Micrantheum ericoides Desf. var. ericoides legitimate taxonomic synonym: Micrantheum ericoides var. juniperinum Grüning legitimate taxonomic synonym: Micrantheum ericoides var. intermedium Grüning legitimate taxonomic synonym: Micrantheum ericoides var. genuinum Grüning nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: NSW

Forster, P.I. & Halford, D.A. (18 December 2017), Typifications in Australian Euphorbiaceae, Phyllanthaceae and Picrodendraceae. Austrobaileya 10(1): 166-167 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "[Australia] Port Jackson, [without date], Baudin expedition 115 (lecto [here designated]: P 152756; isolecto: P 152757; P 152758)."

taxonomic synonym: Micrantheum boroniaceum F.Muell. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Caletia ericodes Kuntze orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Caletia ericoides (Desf.) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Micrantheum ericoides Desf. var. ericoides legitimate taxonomic synonym: Phyllanthus lhotzkyanus Hochst. ex Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Micrantheum ericoides var. juniperinum Grüning legitimate taxonomic synonym: Micrantheum ericoides var. intermedium Grüning legitimate taxonomic synonym: Micrantheum ericoides var. genuinum Grüning nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

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