Hooker, W.J. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1840), Icones Plantarum 3: t. 291 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "on the Surrey Hills, Van Diemen's Land ... also grows as low down as the Hampshire Hills ... Ronald Gunn (n. 271). Dr. Milligan."

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 430 [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: 78 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 47 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 43 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 168 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 171, Fig. 40 [secondary reference]

Bean, A.R. (16 December 1997), A revision of Rubus subg. Malachobatus (Focke) Focke and Rubus subg. Diemenicus A.R.Bean (Rosaceae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 5(1): 49-50, Map 1 APC [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Tasmania. Chilton, Surrey Hills, 16 February 1837, R. Gunn 271/1837 (lecto: K, here designated; isolecto: NSW [NSW385192]).

• APC Dist.: Tas

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 71 [secondary reference]

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