Mueller, F.J.H. von (1869), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 7(50): 6 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "ad ostium fluvii Glenelgii, prope urbem Portland, in valle Bacchus-Marsh, in monte Arapiles occurrit."

taxonomic synonym: Pimelea hewardiana Meisn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pimelea umbratica A.Cunn. ex Meisn. legitimate

Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 28 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Pimelea hewardiana Meisn. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 73, 142 [secondary reference]

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

basionym of: Banksia elachantha Kuntze legitimate

Threlfall, S. (26 January 1983), The genus Pimelea (Thymelaeaceae) in eastern mainland Australia. Brunonia 5(2): 164 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Bacchus Marsh, sine coll., viii.1852 (MEL 55718)."

Rye, B.L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Thymelaeaceae. Flora of Australia 18: 147 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Pimelea hewardiana Meisn. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Pimelea hewardiana Meisn. legitimate

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