Fryxell, P.A. (1974), New species of Gossypium, Decaschistia and Macrostelia (Malvaceae) from Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 22(1): 189, fig. 3 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Queensland: Cape York Peninsula, Tozer Range, north end; alt. 300 m; shrub± 1 m tall, dioecious; shrubberies on exposed granite bluffs; flowers white, later pale pink, 29 June 1948, L.J.Brass 19353 (holotype: BRI-146586!; isotype; A!)."

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1: 31 [secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2: 32 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 306 [secondary reference]

Craven, L.A. & Pfeil, B.E. (2004), Australian representatives of Macrostelia transferred to Hibiscus (Malvaceae), with the description of a new species. Adansonia 26(2): 238 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Hibiscus tozerensis Craven & B.E.Pfeil legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Hibiscus tozerensis Craven & B.E.Pfeil legitimate

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