Boomsma, C.D. (6 December 1979), Four new species of Eucalyptus L'Herit. from South Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 1(6): 363, fig. 3 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Betty''s Creek Gorge, Everard Ranges, 26°57′S, 132°39′E, 4.10.74, C.D. Boomsma (AD.) Isotypus (Woods and Forests Department, Adelaide)."

Chippendale, G.M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Eucalyptus. Flora of Central Australia: 252, Fig. 331 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 127 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 55 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. in George, A.S. (ed.) (27 June 1988), Eucalyptus. Flora of Australia 19: 399, Fig. 103K-L, Map 513 [secondary reference]

Hopper, S.D., van Leeuwen, S.J., Brown, A.P. & Patrick, S.J. (1990), Western Australia's Endangered Flora: 113, 135 [secondary reference]

Robson, Peter J. (1993), Checklist of Australian Trees: alphabetical listings of common and scientific names: - [secondary reference]

common name: Northern Ranges Box [n/a]

Nicolle, D. (1997), Eucalypts of South Australia: 146-147 [secondary reference]

common name: Northern Ranges Box [n/a]

Brooker, M.I.H. (28 February 2000), A new classification of the genus Eucalyptus L'Her. (Myrtaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 13(1): 119 [secondary reference]

Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research (2006), EUCLID Edn. 3: - [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Eucalyptus bicolor A.Cunn. ex T.Mitch. legitimate by Blakely, W.F. (1934), A Key to the Eucalypts: 231 misapplication: Eucalyptus intertexta var. fruticosa Blakely & Jacobs legitimate by Boomsma, C.D. (1972), Native Trees of South Australia Edn. 1: 128

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA

Nicolle, D. (2013), Native eucalypts of South Australia: 172-173 [secondary reference]

common name: Northern Ranges Box [n/a]

• Etymology: From the Latin sparsus meaning 'sparse', referring to the populations of the species being widely scattered throughout its distribution.

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