Hooker, W.J. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1859), Botanical Magazine 85: t. 5133 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew in 1851, from the Widebay district, north-east Australia, by the late Mr. Bidwill."

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 228 [basionym]

basionym of: Sterculia bidwillii (Hook.) Benth. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 15 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 26 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 78 [basionym]

basionym of: Clompanus bidwillii (Hook.) Kuntze legitimate

Terracciano, A. (1897), Le specie del genere Brachychiton. Bollettino delle r. Orto Botanico e Giardino Coloniale di Palermo 1(2): 60 [basionym]

basionym of: Brachychiton paradoxus subsp. bidwillii (Hook.) A.Terracc. legitimate

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1: 40 [secondary reference]

common name: Little Kurrajong [n/a]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Sterculiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 83 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Sterculia bidwillii (Hook.) Benth. legitimate

Guymer, G.P. (1989), A taxonomic revision of Brachychiton (Sterculiaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 1(3): 266 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Plant cultivated at Kew Gardens from seed sent by J.C. Bidwell from the Wide Bay District, Queensland (lectotype K, designated here, isolectotype K, photos BRI)."

nomenclatural synonym: Sterculia bidwillii (Hook.) Benth. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Clompanus bidwillii (Hook.) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Brachychiton paradoxus subsp. bidwillii (Hook.) A.Terracc. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Brachychiton pubescens C.Moore legitimate taxonomic synonym: Brachychiton paradoxus subsp. pubescens (C.Moore) A.Terracc. legitimate

Guymer, G.P. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Sterculiaceae. Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens: 191 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Brachychiton bidwilli Hook. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Sterculia bidwilli Benth. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Sterculia bidwillii (Hook.) Benth. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Clompanus bidwillii (Hook.) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Brachychiton paradoxus subsp. bidwillii (Hook.) A.Terracc. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Brachychiton pubescens C.Moore legitimate taxonomic synonym: Brachychiton paradoxus subsp. pubescens (C.Moore) A.Terracc. legitimate

• APC Comment: The names "Brachychiton paradoxus var. bidwilli (Hook.) A.Terrac." and "Brachychiton paradoxus var. pubescens (C.Moore) A.Terrac." are listed by A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 456 (1991), but Terraciano’s infraspecific taxa are here interpreted as subspecies, following G.P.Guymer, Austral. Syst. Bot. 1: 266 (1989).
• APC Dist.: Qld

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