Moore, S. le M. (7 December 1920), A contribution to the Flora of Australia. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 45: 202 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Arid plains, Gardner and Fitzgerald Rivers; Maxwell, 211."

Beard, J.S. in Beard, J.S. (ed.) (1965), Descriptive Catalogue of West Australian Plants: 77 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 128 [secondary reference]

Toelken, H.R. (29 August 1996), A revision of the genus Kunzea (Myrtaceae) I. The western Australian section Zeanuk. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 17: 98-101, fig. 20, map 7 APC [secondary reference]

• Type: Western Australia, arid plains, Gardner and Fitzgerald Rivers, G.Maxwell 211 (holo.: BM).

pro parte misapplication: Kunzea pauciflora Schauer legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 114-115

• APC Dist.: WA

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 388 [secondary reference]

Toelken, H.R. & Craig, G.F. (5 December 2007), Kunzea acicularis, K. strigosa and K. similis subsp. mediterranea (Myrtaceae) - new taxa from near Ravensthorpe, Western Australia. Nuytsia 17: 393 [secondary reference]

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