Hooker, W.J. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1854), Letter from John Macgillivray, Esq., Naturalist of H.M. Surveying-ship Herald, commanded by Captain Denham. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 6: 359 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Near the summit of the main peak of the Isle of Pines; abundant. Mr. W. Milne (Herb. n. 118); MacGillivray, Herb. Voy. of H.M.S. Herald, n. 855."

Chapman, A.D. (1991), Australian Plant Name Index: 2728 [secondary reference]

• Text: "Norfolk Island!"

Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Stenocarpus. Flora of Australia 16: 369 [secondary reference]

• Text: "The Isle of Pines of the type locality refers to an islet just off the coast of New Caledonia, not Norfolk Island as mistakenly believed by some authors."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Comment: A New Caledonian taxon recorded for Norfolk Island in error by A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 2728 (1991).

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