Myrtaceae Juss.
Kunzea opposita F.Muell. , legitimate, scientific
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1867), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(42): 24 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "In clivis graniticus ad oppidum Timbarra Novae Angliae. C.St."
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 55 [secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 144 [secondary reference]
Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1: 168 [secondary reference]
common name: Honey Myrtle [n/a] common name: Heath Myrtle [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 166 [secondary reference]
Byrnes, N.B. (14 April 1983), Notes on the genus Kunzea (Myrtaceae) in Queensland. Austrobaileya 1(5): 470 APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: Infraspecific rank not recognised in NSW.
  • APC Dist.: Qld, NSW
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Myrtaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 133, Fig. 18A [secondary reference]
Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Syzygium - Leptospermum. Flora of New South Wales 2: 152 [secondary reference]
Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Kunzea. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 176 [secondary reference]
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: 116-119 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "New South Wales, granite rocks near Timbarra, C.Stuart s.n., Nov. (lecto., designated here: MEL82191; isolecto.: MEL82193)."