Fitzgerald, W.V. (1904), Additions to the West Australian Flora. Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society 2(1): 19 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "On rocky hillside, ½ mile west of Mt. Magnet, Sept. 1903. – W.V.F."

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 131 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. (16 December 2006), A partial revision of the south-western Australian species of Micromyrtus (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae). Nuytsia 16(1): 141-142, Fig. 3D (map) APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

Wege, J.A. & Rye, B.L. (3 May 2024), Typifications in Malleostemon, Micromyrtus, Scholtzia and Thryptomene (Myrtaceae) and a hybrid designation. Nuytsia 35: 78 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: " ‘On rocky hillside, 1/2 mile [0.8 km] west of Mount Magnet’, Western Australia, September 1903, W.V. Fitzgerald s.n. (lecto, here designated: NSW 136239 image!; isolecto: NSW 7063 image!, PERTH 01631357! [comm. W.E. Blackall], PERTH 01631365! [ex Herb. C.A. Gardner])."

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