Meisner, C.D.F. (1854), Plantae Muellerianae: Thymeleae. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 26: 347 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Salt Creek prope Adelaide, Nov., et in mont. petraeis prope Cudnaka etc."

Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 33 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 74 [secondary reference]

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

basionym of: Banksia petraea (Meisn.) Kuntze legitimate

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

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 400 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 598 [secondary reference]

Threlfall, S. (26 January 1983), The genus Pimelea (Thymelaeaceae) in eastern mainland Australia. Brunonia 5(2): 178 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "`P. octophylla β acutifolia' prope Cudnaka N.H. Austr. inter, Dr. Mueller, '51 ex herb. Sonder (MEL58301)."

Threlfall, S. (26 January 1983), The genus Pimelea (Thymelaeaceae) in eastern mainland Australia. Brunonia 5(2): 178 [basionym]

basionym of: Pimelea octophylla subsp. petraea (Meisn.) Threlfall legitimate

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Thymelaeaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 372 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pimelea imbricata R.Br. legitimate

Rye, B.L. (9 May 1988), A revision of Western Australian Thymelaeaceae. Nuytsia 6(2): 184 [basionym]

basionym of: Pimelea imbricata var. petraea (Meisn.) Rye legitimate

Rye, B.L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Thymelaeaceae. Flora of Australia 18: 179 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Pimelea imbricata var. petraea (Meisn.) Rye legitimate

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