Schauer, J.C. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1844), Myrtaceae. Plantae Preissianae 1(1): 125 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In calculosis ad radices montium Darling's range, Octobri 1839. Herb. Preiss. No. 290. J. Drummond!"

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 114 [secondary reference]

• Type: "W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll.; Darling Range, Preiss, n. 290; also Drummond, n. 24, and 5th Coll. n. 136 and 137."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 54 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1923), New Additions to the Flora of Western Australia. Vestnik Kralovske Ceske Spolecnosti Nauk, Trida Matematiko-Prirodevedecke 2: 87 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Kunzea sprengelioides Turcz. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Kunzea squarrosa Turcz. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Tetrapora verrucosa Turcz. legitimate

Beard, J.S. in Beard, J.S. (ed.) (1965), Descriptive Catalogue of West Australian Plants: 77 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 128 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Myrtaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 410 [secondary reference]

Toelken, H.R. (29 August 1996), A revision of the genus Kunzea (Myrtaceae) I. The western Australian section Zeanuk. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 17: 55-59, fig. 7, map 3 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Western Australia, 'in calculosis ad radices montium Darling's-range', J.A.L.Preiss 290 (lecto. – selected here: LD: isolecto.: G, MEL 92342, 92343, W; syn.: J. Drummond 27, W).

taxonomic synonym: Kunzea spicata S.Moore legitimate pro parte taxonomic synonym: Kunzea recurva var. melaleucoides F.Muell. ex Benth. legitimate

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 389 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 710 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Kunzea recurva Schauer var. recurva legitimate taxonomic synonym: Kunzea spicata S.Moore legitimate pro parte taxonomic synonym: Kunzea recurva var. melaleucoides F.Muell. ex Benth. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 126 [secondary reference]

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