Hooker, W.J. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1852), Icones Plantarum 9: t. 845 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Mount Sorell, Macquarrie Harbour, Mr. Milligan (R. Gunn n. 2051)."

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 262 [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: 86 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 109 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 126 [secondary reference]

Oliver, W.R.B. (1929), Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 59: 710-711 [secondary reference]

Oliver, W.R.B. (1952), Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 80: 16 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 461 [secondary reference]

Buchanan, A.M. in Buchanan, A.M. (ed.) (1999), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania Edn. 3: 21 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Dracophyllum milligani Hook. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: Tas

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 37 [secondary reference]

Venter, S. (4 January 2021), A taxonomic revision of the Australasian genera Dracophyllum and Richea (Richeeae: Styphelioideae: Ericaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 34: 45-48, Figs 36, 37, 38 (map) [secondary reference]

• Type: "Tasmania,Mount Sorel, Macquarie Harbour, 15 Jan. 1846. J. M. Milligan 747 (holo: MELB 2064389!; iso: BM!; HO!; K!; NSW!; W!)."

orthographic variant: Dracophyllum milligani Hook. orth. var.

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