Endlicher, S.F.L. (1838), Stirpium Australasicarum Herbarii Hugeliani Decades Tres: 191 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In Novae Hollandiae Austro-occidentalis interioribus, inter Swan-River et King Georges Sound (Roe)"

Schauer, J.C. (1843), Monographia Myrtacearum Xerocarpicarum: 179 [basionym]

basionym of: Genetyllis purpurea (Endl.) Schauer legitimate

Bentham, G. (12 October 1865), Note on the genera Darwinia Rudge and Bartlingia Ad. Brongn. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 9(35): 180 [basionym]

basionym of: Darwinia purpurea (Endl.) Benth. legitimate

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 11 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Darwinia purpurea (Endl.) Benth. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Darwinia purpurea (Endl.) Benth. legitimate

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