Heynhold, G. (1846), Alphabetische und Synonymische Aufzahlung der in der Jahren 1840 bis 1846 in den europäischen Gärten eingeführten Gewächse nebst Angabe ihres Autors: 337 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Metrosideros capitata Sm. legitimate

• Comment: Heynhold attributes this name to "Rchb.". H.G.L.Reichenbach, Consp. Regn. Veg. 175 (1828), indicated that several species of Metrosideros, including M. capitata Sm., comprised a separate genus Kunzea, but did not definitely associate the new genus name and species epithets as required by ICN Art. 35.2 (Shenzhen Code, 2018).

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 116 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Metrosideros capitata Sm. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Callistemon capitatus (Sm.) Rchb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Melaleuca eriocephala Sieber ex Spreng. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Kunzea schaueri Schauer nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Kunzea hirsuta Turcz. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 54 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (May 1888), Supplement to the enumeration of Victorian plants, comprising the species added since Part II. of the key to the system of our native vegetation was published, with addition of a few species inadvertently before omitted. The Victorian Naturalist 5(1): 14 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 144 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 155-156, Plate XLI, 202 [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: 290 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 166 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Syzygium - Leptospermum. Flora of New South Wales 2: 151-152 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Kunzea. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 175 [secondary reference]

Bean, A.R., Guymer, G.P. & Jessup, L.W. in Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (ed.) (2007), Myrtaceae. Census of the Queensland Flora 2007: 121 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Metrosideros capitata Sm. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Callistemon capitatus (Sm.) Rchb. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Kunzea capitata (Sm.) Heynh. var. capitata legitimate taxonomic synonym: Kunzea schaueri Schauer nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Kunzea hirsuta Turcz. legitimate

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

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

nomenclatural synonym: Metrosideros capitata Sm. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Callistemon capitatus (Sm.) Rchb. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Stenospermum capitatum Sweet nom. inval. nomenclatural synonym: Kunzea capitata Steud. nom. inval., pro syn. nomenclatural synonym: Kunzea capitata (Sm.) Heynh. var. capitata legitimate taxonomic synonym: Kunzea schaueri Schauer nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Kunzea hirsuta Turcz. legitimate

• APC Dist.: NSW

Toelken, H.R. (15 December 2016), Revision of Kunzea (Myrtaceae). 2. Subgenera Angasomyrtus and Salisia (section Salisia) from Western Australia and subgenera Kunzea and Niviferae (sections Platyphyllae and Pallidiflorae) from eastern Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 29: 101-103 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Metrosideros capitata Sm. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Callistemon capitatus (Sm.) Rchb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stenospermum capitatum Sweet nom. inval.

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (August 2017), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2016 census to 2017 census. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2017: 23 [secondary reference]

• Text: "... removed, Queensland specimens re-determined to Kunzea obovata Byrnes."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Kunzea obovata Byrnes legitimate by Bean, A.R., Guymer, G.P. & Jessup, L.W. in Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (ed.) (2007), Myrtaceae. Census of the Queensland Flora 2007: 121

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