Desfontaines, R.L. (1819), Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 5: 39, t. 3, 4 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1828), Myrtaceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 3: 209 [secondary reference]

• Type: Chamelaucium ciliatum Desf.

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 35-39 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 51 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Darwinia Rudge legitimate

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35(2-3): 408 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Myrtaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 395 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 131 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Decalophium Turcz. legitimate

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 696 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 174 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Chamaelaucium DC. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Chamelaucium Desf. sect. Chamelaucium legitimate taxonomic synonym: Decalophium Turcz. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised)

Marchant, N.G. (10 December 2019), Circumscription of Chamelaucium (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae), with validation of six species names and two new combinations. Nuytsia 30: 319-320 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Decalophium Turcz. legitimate

• Etymology: " Desfontaines ... coined the generic name from the strong resemblance of the bracteoles, especially the outer bracteole, to a cape or hood. A late antique Greek word for a type of cap worn by court officials, or the hood of a monastic habit, is a καμελαύκιον, i.e. kamelaukion. ... In the type species C. ciliatum Desf., the bracteoles are brown and closely resemble the hood or cape of a medieval monk. An additional monastic hood-like character is the erect or curved, coneshaped nipple, referred to here as an ‘umbo’, borne on the highest part of the bracteoles of C. ciliatum Desf., and most other species of the genus."

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