Mueller, F.J.H. von (1855), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants: 45 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Generally a companion of Kunzea peduncularis" [i.e. "At the foot of the Australian Alps, on the banks of rivers and rivulets."].

• Comment: See paper by O.Seberg, Taxon 35: 262-271 (1986), which discusses the date of publication of Mueller's preprint.

Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the Colony of Victoria. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 8: 67 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 108 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Leptospermum attenuatum Sm. legitimate

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 287 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 266 [secondary reference]

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

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Myrtaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 129 [secondary reference]

Thompson, J. (8 December 1989), A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 382-383, map 5-33 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "(here chosen): [VICTORIA:] Buffalo Creek, F. Mueller, 6 March [18]53, MEL 1539307. ISOLECTOTYPES: MEL 1512928, K (n.v., photo NSW)."

• APC Comment: Hybrids between this taxon and Leptospermum microcarpum Cheel are recorded from Qld.
• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic

Thompson, J. & Logan, V. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Leptospermum. Flora of New South Wales 2: 161 [secondary reference]

Bean, A.R. (9 September 1992), The genus Leptospermum Forst. et Forst.f. (Myrtaceae) in Northern Australia and Malesia. Austrobaileya 3(4): 649 [secondary reference]

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

common name: Slender Tea Tree [n/a]

Lyne, A.M. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Leptospermum. Flora of Victoria 3: 1012, 1014, Fig. 208f [secondary reference]

common name: Slender Teatree [n/a]

Thompson, J. & Logan, V. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Leptospermum. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 186 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Leptospermum brevipes F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud. isonym: Leptospermum brevipes F.Muell. isonym

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic

Wilson, Peter G. & Heslewood, M.M. (3 May 2023), Revised taxonomy of the tribe Leptospermeae (Myrtaceae) based on morphological and DNA data. Taxon 72(3): 565 [basionym]

basionym of: Gaudium brevipes (F.Muell.) Peter G.Wilson legitimate

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