Brown, R. in Flinders, M. (1814), General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis. A Voyage to Terra Australis 2, Appendix III: - [tax. nov.]

• Type: "those species of Metrosideros that have inflorescence similar to that of Melaleuca, and distinct elongated filaments." Callistemon rigidus R.Br. (first specific epithet!)

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 118-123 [secondary reference]

Baillon, H.E. (1876), Histoire des Plantes 6: 359 [basionym]

basionym of: Melaleuca sect. Callistemon (R.Br.) Baill. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 55 [secondary reference]

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35(2-3): 424 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 147 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 187 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 150-152 [secondary reference]

common name: Bottle Brushes [n/a]

Ewart, A.J. (1925), Handbook of Forest Trees for Victorian Foresters: 381-383 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 405 [secondary reference]

common name: Bottle-brush [n/a]

• Etymology: "From Greek kallos, beauty; stemon, a stamen."

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 604-605 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Greek kallos, beauty; stemon, a stamen."

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 199 [secondary reference]

common name: Bottle-brush [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 291 [secondary reference]

common name: Bottlebrush [n/a]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 231 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 268 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 202-203 [secondary reference]

common name: Bottle-brush [n/a]

George, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Myrtaceae (most, not Eucalyptus). Flora of Central Australia: 253 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 155 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Myrtaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 133-134 [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: 386 [secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 80 [secondary reference]

Spencer, R.D. & Lumley, P.F. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Callistemon. Flora of New South Wales 2: 168-169 [secondary reference]

common name: Bottlebrushes [n/a]

Spencer, R.D. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Callistemon. Flora of Victoria 3: 1022-1023 [secondary reference]

Spencer, R.D. & Lumley, P.F. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Callistemon. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 193 [secondary reference]

common name: Bottlebrushes [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 691 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 342 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 138 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Calostemon T.Post & Kuntze orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Melaleuca sect. Callistemon (R.Br.) Baill. legitimate

• APC Comment: Callistemon is included in a broadly circumscribed Melaleuca in NT, Qld, ACT and Tas.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, LHI, ACT (native and naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas

Craven, L.A., Edwards, R.D. & Cowley, K.J. (2014), New combinations and names in Melaleuca (Myrtaceae). Taxon 63(3): 664 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Melaleuca L. nom. cons.

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