Meisner, C.D.F. (1854), Plantae Muellerianae: Thymeleae. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 26: 345 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Australia felix, Sept. 1852."

Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 26 [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: 81 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 73 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 583 [basionym]

basionym of: Banksia axiflora (F.Muell. ex Meisn.) Kuntze legitimate

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 174 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 92 [secondary reference]

Ewart, A.J. (1925), Handbook of Forest Trees for Victorian Foresters: 233, Pl. CXV [secondary reference]

common name: Tough Rice-flower [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 622 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 206 [secondary reference]

Threlfall, S. (26 January 1983), The genus Pimelea (Thymelaeaceae) in eastern mainland Australia. Brunonia 5(2): 156-158 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Thymelaeaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 379 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Thymelaeaceae. Flora of Australia 18: 153-156 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Banksia axiflora (F.Muell. ex Meisn.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Dist.: NSW, Vic, Tas

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Thymelaeaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 918 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Thymelaeaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 379 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Banksia axiflora (F.Muell. ex Meisn.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pimelea axiflora F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud.

• APC Dist.: NSW, Vic, Tas

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