Hooker, J.D. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1840), Contributions towards a Flora of Van Dieman's Land, chiefly from the collections of Ronald Gunn., Esq., and the late Mr Lawrence. The Journal of Botany 2: 417 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Rocky Cape, Mr. Gunn (n. 485, 1837.) – New Holland, Mr. Cunningham."

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 332 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 76 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 10 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 18 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 24 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 103 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Paul G. (10 December 1970), A taxonomic revision of the genera Crowea, Eriostemon and Phebalium (Rutaceae). Nuytsia 1(1): 50, Map 33 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: " "Rocky Cape, Mr. Gunn (n. 485, 1837.) – New Holland, Mr. Cunningham." ["New Holland" was in error, the correct locality is Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania, fide Hooker f. , Fl. Tasm. 1:65 (1855] Lectotypus: Gunn no. 485 (1837), K (photo seen); iso:? NSW. Syntypes: A. Cunningham. "rocky shores of Macquarie Harbour", K (photo seen)."

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 107 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 193 [secondary reference]

Weston, P.H. & Porteners, M.F. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Eriostemon. Flora of New South Wales 2: 254 [secondary reference]

common name: Tasmanian Waxflower [n/a]

Wilson, Paul G. (16 September 1998), A taxonomic review of the genera Eriostemon and Philotheca (Rutaceae: Boronieae). Nuytsia 12(2): 260 [basionym]

basionym of: Philotheca virgata (Hook.f.) Paul G.Wilson legitimate

Bayly, M.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Eriostemon. Flora of Victoria 4: 181-182, Fig. 33f [secondary reference]

common name: Tasmanian Wax-flower [n/a]

Weston, P.H. & Harden G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Philotheca. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 298 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Philotheca virgata (Hook.f.) Paul G.Wilson legitimate

Ross, J.H. & Walsh, N.G. (June 2003), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 7: 114 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Philotheca virgata (Hook.f.) Paul G.Wilson legitimate

Wilson, Paul G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2013), Philotheca. Flora of Australia 26: 400 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Philotheca virgata (Hook.f.) Paul G.Wilson legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 74 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Philotheca virgata (Hook.f.) Paul G.Wilson legitimate

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