Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 247 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "W. Australia. Harvey river, "Black-butt," Oldfield; Tone river and granite rocks near Cape Arid, Maxwell; also Drummond, 4th Coll. n. 72; Gilbert; J.S. Roe; and in Preiss''s collection ..."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 58 [secondary reference]

Maiden, J.H. (March 1914), A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus 2(10): 304-305, pl. 87, 88 [secondary reference]

Hall, N., Johnston, R.D. & Chippendale, G.M. (1970), Forest Trees of Australia: 148-149 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 126 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Eucalyptus. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 406-407 [secondary reference]

common name: Swan River Blackbutt [n/a]

Chippendale, G.M. in George, A.S. (ed.) (27 June 1988), Eucalyptus. Flora of Australia 19: 131, Fig. 53K-L, Map 96 [secondary reference]

common name: Blackbutt [n/a] common name: Yarri [n/a]

Robson, Peter J. (1993), Checklist of Australian Trees: alphabetical listings of common and scientific names: - [secondary reference]

common name: Yarri [n/a] common name: West Australian Blackbutt [n/a] common name: Swan River Blackbutt [n/a] common name: Blackbutt [n/a]

Brooker, M.I.H. (28 February 2000), A new classification of the genus Eucalyptus L'Her. (Myrtaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 13(1): 131 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 704 [secondary reference]

common name: Yarri [n/a] common name: Swan RIver Blackbutt [n/a] common name: Blackbutt [n/a]

Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research (2006), EUCLID Edn. 3: - [secondary reference]

common name: Blackbutt [n/a]

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 124 [secondary reference]

French, M. & Nicolle, D. (2019), Eucalypts of Western Australia: The south-west coast and ranges: 280-281 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Harvey River, WA, A.Oldfield s.n. (syn: K, MEL); Tone River, WA, G.Maxwell s.n. (syn: K, MEL, NSW); Swan River [WA], J.Drummond 4: 72 (syn: BM, CGE, K, MEL, NSW, PERTH): south-western WA, J.Gilbert s.n. (syn: BM): south-western WA, J.S.Roe s.n. (syn: n.v.): Swan River Colony [WA], 1843, L.Preiss 252 (syn: MEL)."

common name: Western Australian blackbutt [n/a] common name: Swan River blackbutt [n/a] common name: yarri [n/a] common name: blackbutt [n/a]

• Etymology: "From the Latin patens (spreading or outspread), apparently referring to its large crown."

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