Gardner, C.A. (1964), Contributiones Florae Australiae Occidentalis, XIII. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 47(2): 61 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Hab. in distr. Garling prope Culalla, in arenosis humidis, fl. m. Decem. Gardner (TYPUS);"

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 123 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Myrtaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 401 [secondary reference]

Hnatiuk, R.J. (30 December 1993), A revision of the genus Eremaea (Myrtaceae). Nuytsia 9(2): 197, figs 26, 27 (map) [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 363 [secondary reference]

Craven, L.A., Edwards, R.D. & Cowley, K.J. (2014), New combinations and names in Melaleuca (Myrtaceae). Taxon 63(3): 669 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Melaleuca ostrina Craven & R.D.Edwards legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Melaleuca ostrina Craven & R.D.Edwards legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

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