Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1828), Myrtaceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 3: 223 [comb. nov.]

• Type: "in Nova-Hollandia ... (v.s. ex hort. Berol.)"

basionym: Metrosideros linearifolia Link legitimate

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]

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

Spencer, R.D. & Lumley, P.F. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Callistemon. Flora of New South Wales 2: 172 [secondary reference]

Spencer, R.D. & Lumley, P.F. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Callistemon. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 197 [secondary reference]

Craven, L.A. (2006), New combinations in Melaleuca for Australian Species of Callistemon (Myrtaceae). Novon 16(4): 472 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Melaleuca linearifolia (Link) Craven legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Callistemon linearifolium DC. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Metrosideros linearifolia Link legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Melaleuca linearifolia (Link) Craven legitimate taxonomic synonym: Metrosideros rigidifolia Hoffmanns. nom. inval., pro syn.

• APC Dist.: NSW

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