Cheel, E. (1915), On two new species of Leucopogon. Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 39: 98 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In May 1911, Dr. J. Burton Cleland made a collection of about fifty-seven species of plants in the neighbourhood of Coonalpyn, Ninety-mile Desert, South Australia ..."

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 449 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 671-672, Fig. 931 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 255 [secondary reference]

Willis, J.H. (15 July 1967), Systematic notes on the indigenous Australian flora. Muelleria 1(3): 140 [basionym]

basionym of: Styphelia clelandii (Cheel) J.H.Willis legitimate

Powell, J.M., Walsh, N.G., & Brown, E.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Leucopogon. Flora of Victoria 3: 506, Fig. 103g-i [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Styphelia clelandii (Cheel) J.H.Willis legitimate common name: Cleland's Beard-Heath [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Leucopogon clelandi Cheel orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Styphelia clelandii (Cheel) J.H.Willis legitimate

• APC Dist.: SA, Vic

Crayn, D.M., Hislop, M. & Puente-Lelièvre, C. (5 February 2020), A phylogenetic recircumscription of Styphelia (Ericaceae, Epacridoideae, Styphelieae). Australian Systematic Botany 33(2): 154 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Styphelia clelandii (Cheel) J.H.Willis legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Styphelia clelandii (Cheel) J.H.Willis legitimate

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