Cavanilles, A.J. (1797), Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum 4(1): 25, t. 344 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: nom. cons. vs. EPACRIS Forster (1776). (nom. rej.) (ref. I.C.B.N. (1983) No. 6260).

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 232 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 108 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Archeria Hook.f. legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 245-246 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 296 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 52-54 [secondary reference]

common name: Australian Heaths [n/a]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 451 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Greek epi, on; akris, hilltop: habitat of several species."

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 675 [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: 341 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 443-446 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 298-300 [secondary reference]

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 209 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 478 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 112 [secondary reference]

Voss, E.G. (1983), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Sydney, 1981. Regnum Vegetabile 111: 392 [secondary reference]

• Type: Epacris longiflora Cav. (typ. cons.)

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Epacridaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 263 [secondary reference]

Powell, J.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Epacridaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 3: 404-405 [secondary reference]

Albrecht, D.E. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Epacridaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 468-469 [secondary reference]

common name: Heaths [n/a]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 308 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Rupicola Maiden & Betche legitimate taxonomic synonym: Budawangia I.Telford legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Epachris Jolycl. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Epacris sect. Macrepacris Kuntze nom. inval., nom. nud.

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

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

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Cyathodes Labill. legitimate

Quinn, C.J., Crowden, R.K., Brown, E.A., Southam, M.J., Thornhill, A.H. & Crayn, D.M. (10 September 2015), A reappraisal of the generic concepts of Epacris, Rupicola and Budawangia (Ericaceae, Epacridoideae, Epacrideae) based on phylogenetic analysis of morphological and molecular data. Australian Systematic Botany 28(1): 72 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Rupicola Maiden & Betche legitimate taxonomic synonym: Budawangia I.Telford legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Epachris Jolycl. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Rupicola Maiden & Betche legitimate taxonomic synonym: Epacris sect. Macrepacris Kuntze nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Budawangia I.Telford legitimate

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

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