Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 470 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Psidium guajava L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 211 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1888), A Synopsis of the Queensland Flora Suppl. 2: 26 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 202 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 642, 643 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 168 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Myrtaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 204 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Myrtaceae - Melaleuca to Pilidostigma. Flora of New South Wales 2: 191 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. (1993), Myrtaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 250 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: ChI (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised)

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Psidium. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 224 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 351 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 712 [secondary reference]

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