Schumann, K. in Engler, H.G.A. & Prantl, K.A.E. (ed.) (September 1890), Sterculiaceae. Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien III, 6(49-50): 96 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Delabechea rupestris T.Mitch. ex Lindl. legitimate

• Comment: Combination also made by Terracino, Boll. R. Orto Bot. Palermo 1 (1897) 64.

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

common name: Bottle Tree [n/a]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Sterculiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 84 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Delabechea rupestris T.Mitch. ex Lindl. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Sterculia rupestris (T.Mitch. ex Lindl.) Benth. legitimate common name: Narrow Leaved Bottletree [n/a] common name: Bottletree [n/a] common name: Queensland Bottletree [n/a]

Guymer, G.P. (1989), A taxonomic revision of Brachychiton (Sterculiaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 1(3): 243-245 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Delabechea rupestris T.Mitch. ex Lindl. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Brachychiton delabechei F.Muell. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. nomenclatural synonym: Sterculia rupestris (T.Mitch. ex Lindl.) Benth. legitimate

Robson, Peter J. (1993), Checklist of Australian Trees: alphabetical listings of common and scientific names: - [secondary reference]

common name: Queensland Bottletree [n/a] common name: Narrow leaved Bottletree [n/a] common name: Queensland Rattle Tree [n/a]

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

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 530 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Sterculia rupestris (T.Mitch. ex Lindl.) Benth. legitimate common name: Narrow-leaved Bottletree [n/a] common name: Queensland Bottletree [n/a]

Moore, P. (2005), A guide to plants of inland Australia: 239 (photo, map) [secondary reference]

common name: Narrow-leaved Bottle Tree [n/a] common name: Bottle Tree [n/a] common name: Queensland Bottle Tree [n/a]

• Etymology: rupestris: living among rocks.

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

orthographic variant: Brachychiton rupestre K.A.W.Williams orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Delabechea rupestris T.Mitch. ex Lindl. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Delabachea repestris Macarthur & C.Moore orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Brachychiton delabechei F.Muell. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. nomenclatural synonym: Sterculia rupestris (T.Mitch. ex Lindl.) Benth. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Brachychiton delabechii F.Muell. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Clompanus rupestris (Lindl.) Kuntze legitimate isonym: Brachychiton rupestris (T.Mitch. ex Lindl.) A.Terracc. isonym

• APC Comment: Hybrids between Brachychiton rupestris and Brachychiton populneus subsp. trilobus have been cultivated and possibly occur naturally (G.P.Guymer, Austral. Syst. Bot. 1(3): 236 (1988)).
• APC Dist.: Qld

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