Hooker, J.D. in Hooker, W.J. (1847), Florae Tasmaniae Spicilegium: or, Contributions towards a Flora of Van Diemen's Land. London Journal of Botany 6: 272 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Marlborough and Hampshire Hills; Gunn, Lawrence:– v.v.n."

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 240 [basionym]

basionym of: Epacris microphylla var. gunnii (Hook.f.) Benth. legitimate

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 122 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Epacris microphylla R.Br. legitimate

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 451, Fig. 99B [secondary reference]

Albrecht, D.E. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Epacridaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 470, Fig. 96c APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Epacris microphylla var. gunnii (Hook.f.) Benth. legitimate

• APC Dist.: NSW, Tas

Buchanan, A.M. in Buchanan, A.M. (ed.) (1999), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania Edn. 3: 21 [secondary reference]

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 38 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Epacris microphylla var. gunnii (Hook.f.) Benth. legitimate misapplication: Epacris microphylla R.Br. legitimate by Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 240 misapplication: Epacris microphylla R.Br. legitimate by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 122

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