Schauer, J.C. (1843), Monographia Myrtacearum Xerocarpicarum: 207 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "in collibus litoralibus saxosis ad Roës-River, York-Sound, lat. Austr. 15°, longit. or. a Greenwich 125°, legit d. 14. Septembris a. 1820 b. Allan-Cunningham!"

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 29-30 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 52 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 181 [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: 272 [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): 252 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 132 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 56 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Myrtaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 544, Fig. 155F [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 179-181, Fig. 56 [secondary reference]

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 406 [secondary reference]

common name: Tree Featherflower [n/a]

George, E.A. (2002), Verticordia: the turner of hearts: 308-310, Plate 63 [secondary reference]

common name: Tree Featherflower [n/a]

• Vernacular: Liandu

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Verticordia cunninghami Schauer orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Verticordia cunninghamii Schauer var. cunninghamii legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT

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