Schauer, J.C. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1844), Myrtaceae. Plantae Preissianae 1(1): 125 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In plagis interioribus Australiae meridionali-occidentali. Octobri 1840. Herb. Preiss. No. 276."

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 113-114 [secondary reference]

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

Blackall, W.E. & Grieve, B.J. (1954), How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the temperate regions of Western Australia 1: 294 [secondary reference]

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

Blackall, W.E. & Grieve, B.J. (1980), How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the extratropical regions of Western Australia Edn. 2, 3A: 100 [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: 92-95, fig. 18, map 6 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Western Australia, without precise loc., Preiss 276 (lecto. – selected here: LD).

taxonomic synonym: Kunzea villiceps Schauer legitimate taxonomic synonym: Kunzea preissiana var. villiceps (Schauer) Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Kunzea villiceps var. glabrior Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Kunzea preissiana var. glabra Blackall & Grieve nom. inval., nom. nud.

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: 100 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Kunzea affinis S.Moore x Kunzea preissiana Schauer legitimate by Blackall, W.E. & Grieve, B.J. (1980), How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the extratropical regions of Western Australia Edn. 2, 3A: 100

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 389 [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: 390-392 [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: 394 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Kunzea strigosa Toelken & G.F.Craig legitimate by Blackall, W.E. & Grieve, B.J. (1980), How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the extratropical regions of Western Australia Edn. 2, 3A: 100

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

nomenclatural synonym: Kunzea preissiana Schauer var. preissiana legitimate taxonomic synonym: Kunzea villiceps Schauer legitimate taxonomic synonym: Kunzea preissiana var. villiceps (Schauer) Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Kunzea villiceps var. glabrior Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Kunzea villiceps Schauer var. villiceps legitimate taxonomic synonym: Kunzea preissiana var. glabra Blackall & Grieve nom. inval., nom. nud.

• APC Dist.: WA

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (21 March 2023), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2022. Nuytsia 34: 13 [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Kunzea affinis S.Moore x Kunzea preissiana Schauer legitimate

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (22 March 2024), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2023. Nuytsia 35: 6 [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Kunzea affinis S.Moore x Kunzea preissiana Schauer legitimate

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