Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 286 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N. Australia. Port Essington, Armstrong; N. coast, A. Cunningham."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 59 [secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 266 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 251 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M. (1983), A revision of Syzygium and allied genera (Myrtaceae) in Australia. Australian Journal of Botany Supplementary Series 9: 54 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Armstrong 621, Port Essington (K, lectotype)."

Hyland, B.P.M. (1983), A revision of Syzygium and allied genera (Myrtaceae) in Australia. Australian Journal of Botany Supplementary Series 9: 54 [basionym]

basionym of: Syzygium armstrongii (Benth.) B.Hyland legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Syzygium armstrongii (Benth.) B.Hyland legitimate

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Myrtaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 541 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Syzygium armstrongii (Benth.) B.Hyland legitimate

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 177 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Syzygium armstrongii (Benth.) B.Hyland legitimate

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Syzygium armstrongii (Benth.) B.Hyland legitimate

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