Blakely, W.F. (1929), A Further Contribution to our Knowledge of the Flora of New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 54(5): 683, pl. xxix (2). APC [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Growing on bare sandstone rocks about one mile north-east of Colo Trigonometrical Station, 861 feet above sea-level, and just below the Canoe Grounds, Hawkesbury River (D.W.C. Shiress and W.F.B., October, 1927)."

• APC Dist.: NSW

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 290 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 166 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Syzygium - Leptospermum. Flora of New South Wales 2: 153 [secondary reference]

Threatened Species and Communities Section, Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia (8 July 1998), Endangered Species Protection Act 1992. Schedules 1, 2 & 3: 22 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Kunzea. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 177 [secondary reference]

Toelken, H.R. (15 December 2016), Revision of Kunzea (Myrtaceae). 2. Subgenera Angasomyrtus and Salisia (section Salisia) from Western Australia and subgenera Kunzea and Niviferae (sections Platyphyllae and Pallidiflorae) from eastern Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 29: 97-99, Fig. 7 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "New South Wales, Hornsby Plateau, near Canoelands, D.W.C.Shiress & W.F.Blakely s.n., 16.x.1929 (lecto., designated here: NSW 124239; isolecto.: BRI40930; K 3 sheets, MEL92309)."

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