Maiden, J.H. (1912), A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus 2(5): 177, pl. 67 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "South Australia ... 80 miles east of Fasina to the Flinders Ranges west of Lake Frome, about 400 miles north of Adelaide, at a place called Umberatana. ... (W.Gill.)"

pro parte taxonomic synonym: Eucalyptus socialis var. laurifolia F.Muell. ex Maiden nom. inval., pro syn.

• Etymology: "I name it in honour of Mr. Walter Gill, Conservator of Forests, of South Australia, from whom I originally received specimens of this form in 1900."

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 418 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 625, Fig. 838 [secondary reference]

common name: Curly Mallee [n/a]

Hall, N. & Brooker, M.I.H. (1974), Forest Tree Series 135: - [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 530-531, Fig. 57g [secondary reference]

common name: Broken Hill Wattle [n/a] common name: Silver Mallee [n/a] common name: Curly Mallee [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 158 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. in George, A.S. (ed.) (27 June 1988), Eucalyptus. Flora of Australia 19: 259, Fig. 78E-F, Map 291 [secondary reference]

common name: Curly Mallee [n/a]

Hill, K.D. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Flora of New South Wales 2: 96 [secondary reference]

common name: Curly Mallee [n/a]

Robson, Peter J. (1993), Checklist of Australian Trees: alphabetical listings of common and scientific names: - [secondary reference]

common name: Silver Mallee [n/a] common name: Curly Mallee [n/a] common name: Broken Hill Mallee [n/a] common name: Arkaroola Mallee [n/a]

Nicolle, D. (1997), Eucalypts of South Australia: 46-47 [secondary reference]

common name: Silver Mallee [n/a] common name: Arkarolla Mallee [n/a] common name: Curly Mallee [n/a]

Johnson, L.A.S. & Hill, K.D. (30 June 1999), Systematic studies in the Eucalypts. 9. A review of series Sociales (Eucalyptus subgenus Symphyomyrtus, Section Bisectaria, Myrtaceae). Telopea 8(2): 193, Fig 11 (map) [secondary reference]

Brooker, M.I.H., Connors, J.R. & Slee, A.V. (2000), EUCLID: Eucalypts of south-eastern Australia Edn. Revised: - [secondary reference]

common name: Curly gum [n/a]

Brooker, M.I.H. (28 February 2000), A new classification of the genus Eucalyptus L'Her. (Myrtaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 13(1): 106 [secondary reference]

Hill, K.D. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Eucalyptus. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 115 [secondary reference]

common name: Curly Mallee [n/a]

Nicolle, D. (20 December 2005), A taxonomic revision and morphological variation within Eucalyptus series Subulatae subseries Decussatae and Decurrentes (Myrtaceae) of Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 18(6): 499-500 [secondary reference]

Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research (2006), EUCLID Edn. 3: - [secondary reference]

common name: Silver mallee [n/a] common name: Arkaroola mallee [n/a] common name: Curly mallee [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Eucalyptus gillii Maiden var. gillii legitimate

• APC Dist.: SA, NSW

Nicolle, D. (2013), Native eucalypts of South Australia: 80-81 [secondary reference]

common name: Silver Mallee [n/a] common name: Arkarolla Mallee [n/a] common name: Curly Mallee [n/a]

• Etymology: Named in honour of Walter W. Gill (1851-1929), a Conservator of Forests in SA who sent the original specimens of E. gillii to J.H. Maiden, who named the species.

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