Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 551 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(D.) v.v."

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 238 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 86 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 108 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 122 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 448 [secondary reference]

Threatened Species and Communities Section, Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia (8 July 1998), Endangered Species Protection Act 1992. Schedules 1, 2 & 3: 19 [secondary reference]

Buchanan, A.M. in Buchanan, A.M. (ed.) (1999), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania Edn. 3: 21 [secondary reference]

Crowden, R.K. (28 November 2003), Reinstatement of Epacris franklinii Hook.f. (Epacridaceae). Muelleria 18: 72, Figs. 1a & d, 2, 3 (map) [secondary reference]

• Type: Holotype: Port Dalrymple, Jan. 1804, R. Brown 2485 (BM).

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

nomenclatural synonym: Epacris exserta R.Br. var. exserta legitimate

• APC Dist.: Tas

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 38 [secondary reference]

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