Hooker, J.D. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1853), Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 5: 299, t. VII [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Summit of the Western Mountains in Tasmania, alt. 3–4000 feet; R.C. Gunn, Esq."

Meisner, C.D.F. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1857), Thymelaeaceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 14(2): 566 [basionym]

basionym of: Daphnobryon tasmanicum (Hook.f.) Meisn. legitimate

Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 36 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Daphnobryon tasmanicum (Hook.f.) Meisn. legitimate

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: 81 [secondary reference]

Berggren, S. (1877), Fysiogr. Sallsk. minneskr. med. anl. af des hunfraarsferst 8: 18 [basionym]

basionym of: Kelleria tasmanica (Hook.f.) Berggr. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 74 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 175 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 93 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 163 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 625 [secondary reference]

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 191, Fig. 207-8 [secondary reference]

Heads, M.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Kelleria. Flora of Australia 18: 134 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads legitimate by Ross, J.H. in Ross, J.H. (ed.) (March 1990), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 3: 92, 127

Heads, M.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Kelleria. Flora of Australia 18: 134 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl. legitimate

Ross, J.H. in Ross, J.H. (ed.) (March 1990), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 3: 92, 127 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Drapetes tasmanica Hook.f. orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl. legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 79 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Kelleria bogongensis C.E.Marks legitimate by Ross, J.H. in Ross, J.H. (ed.) (March 1990), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria Edn. 3: 92, 127

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