Desfontaines, R.L. (1819), Supplement au memoire sur le genre Chamelaucium. Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle 5: 271-272, t. 19 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "M. Brown la recueillit en 1802 près de Luchy-Bay, côte australe de la Nouvelle-Hollande."

taxonomic synonym: Diplachne baueri Desf. nom. inval., pro syn.

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

basionym of: Verticordia brownii (Desf.) DC. legitimate

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 22 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Verticordia brownii (Desf.) DC. legitimate

George, A.S. (30 June 1991), New taxa, combinations and typifications in Verticordia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae). Nuytsia 7(3): 293 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (here chosen): Lucky Bay (E of Esperance, Western Australia), January 1802, R. Brown s.n. (FI; isolecto: K, NY).

George, A.S. (30 June 1991), New taxa, combinations and typifications in Verticordia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae). Nuytsia 7(3): 293 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Verticordia brownii (Desf.) DC. legitimate

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