Desfontaines, R.L. (1819), Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle 5: 42, t. 4 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not cited).

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Verticordia fontanesii DC. nom. illeg.

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 21 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Verticordia fontanesii DC. nom. illeg.

Druce, G.C. (1917), Nomenclatorial Notes: chiefly African and Australian. The Botanical Exchange Club and Society of the British Isles Report for 1916, Suppl. 2: 651 [basionym]

basionym of: Verticordia plumosa (Desf.) Druce legitimate

Domin, K. (1923), New Additions to the Flora of Western Australia. Vestnik Kralovske Ceske Spolecnosti Nauk, Trida Matematiko-Prirodevedecke 2: 79 [basionym]

basionym of: Verticordia plumosa (Desf.) Domin isonym

George, A.S. (30 June 1991), New taxa, combinations and typifications in Verticordia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae). Nuytsia 7(3): 353 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "(here chosen): locality not given, but probably King George Sound, [Western Australia], 1803, J.Leschenault (FI; isolecto: BM,FI,P).",

George, A.S. (30 June 1991), New taxa, combinations and typifications in Verticordia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae). Nuytsia 7(3): 353 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Verticordia plumosa (Desf.) Druce legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Chamaelaucium plumosum Domin orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Verticordia plumosa (Desf.) Druce legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Verticordia plumosa (Desf.) Druce legitimate

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