Mueller, F.J.H. von (1863), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 3(22): 131-132 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In Australiae regionibus depressioribus quam maxime austro-occidentalibus, ubi Blue Gum-tree vocatur. A. Oldfield."

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 252 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 58 [secondary reference]

Maiden, J.H. (March 1914), A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus 2(10): 298-300, pl. 86 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eucalyptus colossea F.Muell. legitimate

Grimwade, R. (1920), An anthography of the eucalypts: pl. 73 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eucalyptus colossea F.Muell. legitimate common name: Karri [n/a]

Grimwade, R. (1930), An anthography of the eucalypts Edn. 2: pl. 97 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eucalyptus colossea F.Muell. legitimate common name: Karri [n/a]

Floyd, A.G. (1978), Forestry Commission of New South Wales Research Note 35: 50-51 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 124 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. in George, A.S. (ed.) (27 June 1988), Eucalyptus. Flora of Australia 19: 196-197, Figs 18, 64A-B, Map 196 [secondary reference]

Brooker, M.I.H. (28 February 2000), A new classification of the genus Eucalyptus L'Her. (Myrtaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 13(1): 94 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 706 [secondary reference]

common name: Karri [n/a]

Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research (2006), EUCLID Edn. 3: - [secondary reference]

common name: Karri [n/a]

French, M. & Nicolle, D. (2019), Eucalypts of Western Australia: The south-west coast and ranges: 260-261 [secondary reference]

• Type: "?Wilson Inlet, WA, A.Oldfield 788 (Holo: MEL; iso: CGE, E, K)."

common name: karri [n/a]

• Etymology: "From the Latin diversus (different) and color (colour), presumably referring to its discolorous leaves (a different shade of green on each surface of the leaf)."

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