Bailey, F.M. (1905), Botany. Contributions to the Flora of Queensland. Queensland Agricultural Journal 15(8): 899, Pl. XXII [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Mount Spurgeon, Mitchell River, Port Douglas, F.W.H. Lade. Leaf specimens, December, 1902; immature fruiting specimens, May, 1905."

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 510, Fig. 516 [secondary reference]

common name: The Mount Spurgeon Black Kauri Pine [n/a]

Gray, N.E. & Buchholz, J.T. (1951), A Taxonomic Revision of Podocarpus VI. The South Pacific Species of Podocarpus: section Sundacarpus. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 32: 86-87 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M. (1971), A key to the common rainforest trees between Townsville and Cooktown, based on leaf and bark features: 55, Code 336 [secondary reference]

common name: Mount Spurgeon Black Kauri Pine [n/a]

Gaussen, H.M. in Gaussen, H.M. (ed.) (1974), Etudes dendrologiques: Les gymnospermes actuelles et fossiles. Travaux du Laboratoire Forestier de Toulouse 2(1): 102 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Stachycarpus ladei Gaussen nom. inval.

Laubenfels, D.J. de (1978), The genus Prumnopitys (Podocarpaceae) in Malesia. Blumea 24(1): 190 [basionym]

basionym of: Prumnopitys ladei (F.M.Bailey) de Laub. legitimate

Hyland, B.P.M. (1982), A revised card key to rainforest trees of North Queensland: 56, 122, 144, Code 336 [secondary reference]

common name: Mount Spurgeon black Kauri Pine [n/a] common name: Brown Pine [n/a]

Hill, K.D. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Podocarpaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 548 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Prumnopitys ladei (F.M.Bailey) de Laub. legitimate

Melikyan, A.P. & Bobrov, A.V.F.C. (2000), Morphology of Reproductive Organs and Experience of Development of the Phylogenetic System for the Orders Podocarpales, Cephalotaxales, and Taxales. Botanicheskii Zhurnal 85(7): 58 [basionym]

basionym of: Stachypitys ladei (F.M.Bailey) A.V.Bobrov & Melikyan legitimate

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 7 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Prumnopitys ladei (F.M.Bailey) de Laub. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Prumnopitys ladei (F.M.Bailey) de Laub. legitimate

Page, C.N. (2019), New and maintained genera in the taxonomic alliance of Prumnopitys s.l. (Podocarpaceae), and circumscription of a new genus: Pectinopitys. New Zealand Journal of Botany 57(3): 142 [basionym]

basionym of: Pectinopitys ladei (F.M.Bailey) C.N.Page legitimate

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