Mueller, F.J.H. von (1864), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 4(26): 55 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Metrosideros viridiflora Sims legitimate

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 121 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Metrosideros viridiflora Sims legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Callistemon viridiflorus (Sims) Sweet legitimate

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 53 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Callistemon viridiflorus (Sims) DC. isonym

Craven, L.A. (2006), New combinations in Melaleuca for Australian Species of Callistemon (Myrtaceae). Novon 16(4): 473 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Melaleuca virens Craven legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Callistemon salignus var. viridiflora Benth. orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Callistemon viridiflorus (Sims) Sweet legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 57 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Melaleuca virens Craven legitimate

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