Hooker, W.J. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1842), Icones Plantarum 5: t. 405, 406, 407 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Guangan; Swan River Colony, Australia. Mr.J. Drummond"

Paxton, J. (1849), Paxton's Magazine of Botany 15: 29-30 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 224 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 57 [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): 439 [secondary reference]

Maiden, J.H. (1913), A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus 2(8): 239-242, pl. 77 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 167 [secondary reference]

Grimwade, R. (1920), An anthography of the eucalypts: pl. 69 [secondary reference]

common name: Rose of the West [n/a] common name: Blue Bush [n/a] common name: Desert Gum [n/a]

Grimwade, R. (1930), An anthography of the eucalypts Edn. 2: pl. 93 [secondary reference]

common name: Rose of the West [n/a] common name: Blue Bush [n/a] common name: Sand Plain Gum [n/a] common name: Desert Gum [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 126 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. in George, A.S. (ed.) (27 June 1988), Eucalyptus. Flora of Australia 19: 271, Fig. 81D-E, Map 310 [secondary reference]

common name: Mottlecah [n/a]

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

common name: Small leaved Mottlecah [n/a] common name: Rose of the west [n/a] common name: Mallee Rose [n/a] common name: Desert Mallee [n/a] common name: Blue Bush [n/a]

Brooker, M.I.H. (28 February 2000), A new classification of the genus Eucalyptus L'Her. (Myrtaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 13(1): 107 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Comment: A reputed hybrid E. drummondii x E. macrocarpa is the basis for E. carnabyi Blakely & H.Steedman ex Blakely according to Pryor & Johnson (1971) and Chippendale (1988). Hybrids between E. macrocarpa and E. pyriformis are reported (FloraBase).
• APC Dist.: WA

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