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• Type: Tetratheca juncea Smith

Gray, A. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1852), Note on Tetratheca. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 4: 199-200 [secondary reference]

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Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 15 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 42, 292 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 43 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 24-25 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 346 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: Greek tetra, four; theke, box, cell: alluding to the 4-celled anthers.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 502 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 56 [secondary reference]

common name: Milkmaids [n/a] common name: Lilac Bells [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 147 [secondary reference]

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Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 59-60 [secondary reference]

common name: Milkmaids [n/a] common name: Lilac Bells [n/a]

Thompson, J. (10 December 1976), A revision of the genus Tetratheca (Tremandraceae). Telopea 1(3): 139-153, Map 2 [secondary reference]

Thompson, J. (1978), Tremandraceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 111: 1-21 [secondary reference]

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Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 207 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Tremandraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 485 [secondary reference]

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Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Tremandraceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 124 [secondary reference]

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Coode, M.J.E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Elaeocarpaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 6: 142-143 [secondary reference]

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [secondary reference]

common name: Pinkeyes [n/a]

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

common name: Pink-eyes [n/a]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 850 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Petrotheca Steud. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas

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