Maiden, J.H. (1924), A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus 7(2): 58-60 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Meare''s Lake, County Peak, Beverley, Western Australia, O.H. Sargent, No. 707."

• Etymology: "In honour of Oswald Hewlett Sargent, of York, Western Australia, who first supplied me with specimens, and who is well known for his researches on the flora of Western Australia."
• Comment: Note that the type specimen citation should read "H.H.St. Barbe More s.n." not "O.H. Sargent 707" as cited in the protologue and Fl. Austral. 19: 217 (L. Stanberg & Peter G. Wilson, pers. comm. 2006)

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 127 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. in George, A.S. (ed.) (27 June 1988), Eucalyptus. Flora of Australia 19: 217, Fig. 69G-H, Map 223 [secondary reference]

common name: Salt River Gum [n/a]

Brooker, M.I.H. & Kleinig, D.A. (1990), Field Guide to Eucalypts Edn. 1, 2 (South-western and southern Australia): 155 [secondary reference]

Hill, K.D. & Johnson, L.A.S. (12 March 1992), Systematic studies in the eucalypts - 5. New taxa and combinations in Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae) in Western Australia. Telopea 4(4): 573 [secondary reference]

Robson, Peter J. (1993), Checklist of Australian Trees: alphabetical listings of common and scientific names: - [secondary reference]

common name: Sargents Mallet [n/a] common name: Salt River Mallet [n/a] common name: Salt River Gum [n/a]

Nicolle, D. (16 December 2005), A rare and endangered new subspecies of Eucalyptus sargentii (Myrtaceae) with high potential for revegetation of saline sites from south-western Australia and notes on E. diminuta and E. sargentii subsp. fallens. Nuytsia 15(3): 396-397 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Eucalyptus sargenti Maiden orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA

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