Mueller, F.J.H. von (1862), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 3(21): 117 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In planitiebus calcariis flumen Murchison versus, ubi largam efformat copiam talium virgultorum quae autochthonibus "Cheeagnee" signantur. Aug. Oldfield.""

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 241 [basionym]

basionym of: Myrtoleucodendron eleuterostachyum (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

George, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Myrtaceae (most, not Eucalyptus). Flora of Central Australia: 256 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 129 [secondary reference]

Craven, L.A. & Lepschi, B.J. (21 December 1999), Enumeration of the species and infraspecific taxa of Melaleuca (Myrtaceae) occurring in Australia and Tasmania. Australian Systematic Botany 12(6): 874 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Myrtoleucodendron eleuterostachyum (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Melaleuca eleutherostachya F.Muell. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Melaleuca eleuterostachya F.Muell. var. eleuterostachya legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Myrtoleucodendron eleutherostachyum Kuntze orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Myrtoleucodendron eleuterostachyum (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate misapplication: Melaleuca adnata Turcz. legitimate by Carrick, J. & Chorney, K. (25 June 1979), A review of Melaleuca L. (Myrtaceae) in South Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 1(5): 285-286

• APC Dist.: WA, SA

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