Endlicher, S.F.L. (1833), Prodromus Florae Norfolkicae: 47 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Wikstroemia australis Endl.

Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 36 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 74 [secondary reference]

pro parte taxonomic synonym: Daphne L. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 56 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 459 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 163 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: Named after J.E. Wickstrom, a Swedish botanist of the 19th century , who wrote on the Thymelaeaceae.

Ding Hou (December 1960), Thymelaeaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 6(1): 15-23 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 177 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 207 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Thymelaeaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 95 [secondary reference]

Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M., Chaloner, W.G., Demoulin, V., Grolle, R., Hawkesworth, D.L., Nicolson, D.H., Silva, P.C., Stafleu, F.A., Voss, E.G. & McNeill, J. (ed.) (1988), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Berlin, 1988. Regnum Vegetabile 118: 241 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Thymelaeaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 388 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Thymelaeaceae. Flora of Australia 18: 130-131 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 202 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Thymelaeaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 388 [secondary reference]

Herber, B.E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2002), Thymelaeaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 5: 390-391 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 542 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Wickstroemia Endl. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Wikstroemia sect. Euwikstroemia Meisn. nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld, NSW, NI

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 909 [secondary reference]

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