Burman, N.L. (1768), Flora Indica: cui accedit series zoophytorum indicorum, nec non Prodromus Florae Capensis: 87 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Burm. zeyl. 76. t. 31 ... Habitat in Zeylona"

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 293-294 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Memecylon ramiflorum Desr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Myrcia australasica F.Muell. legitimate

Triana, José Jéronimo (1872), Les Melastomacees. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 28(1): 159 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Memecylon australe F.Muell. ex Triana legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 293-294

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 60 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 214 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 133 [secondary reference]

Whiffin, T.P. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Melastomataceae. Flora of Australia 18: 254 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Memecylon pauciflorum Blume var. pauciflorum legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 293-294

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Memecylon pauciflorum Blume legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 293-294

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Memecylon pauciflorum Blume legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 214

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