Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 395 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 187 [secondary reference]

Small, J.K. (1913), North American Flora 29: 82 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Arbutus unedo L.

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 253 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 482 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Ericaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 511 [secondary reference]

Stevens, P.F. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Ericaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 6: 169 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 62 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), Qld (doubtfully naturalised), NSW (doubtfully naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (doubtfully naturalised)

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