Briggs, B.G., Hyland, B.P.M. & Johnson, L.A.S. (1975), Sphalmium, a distrinctive genus of Proteaceae from north Queensland. Australian Journal of Botany 23(1): 165, figs 1, 2 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Sphalmium racemosum (C.White) B.Briggs, B.Hyland & L.Johnson

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 513 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Greek, sphalma, a mistake; 'referring to the failure of botanists generally to appreciate the significance of its inflorescence, fruit and seed structure in relation to its placement within the family' (Briggs et al., 1975). White placed this species in Orites, a genus to which it is not now considered closely related."

Hewson, H.J. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Sphalmium. Flora of Australia 16: 342 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 420 [secondary reference]

Weston, P.H. & Barker, N.P. (13 November 2006), A new suprageneric classification of the Proteaceae, with an annotated checklist of genera. Telopea 11(3): 333 [secondary reference]

Weston, P.H. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Proteaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 9: 391 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 812 [secondary reference]

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