Aiton, W.T. (1811), Hortus Kewensis Edn. 2, 2: 27-28 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Guinea"

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xliii [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 112 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Pittosporum tinifolium A.Cunn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pittosporum ovatifolium F.Muell. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 6, 141 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 11 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 42 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Pittosporum ovatifolium F.Muell. legitimate

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 712 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Pittosporum tinifolium A.Cunn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pittosporum rumphii Putt. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pittosporum ovatifolium F.Muell. legitimate

Cooper, R.C. (1950), The Australian and New Zealand species of Pittosporum. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 43(2): 177-178 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Pittosporum tinifolium A.Cunn. legitimate

Bakker, K. & Steenis, C.G.G.J. van (March 1957), Pittosporaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 5(3): 355-356 [secondary reference]

Schodde, R. (1972), A review of the family Pittosporaceae in Papuasia. Australian Journal of Botany Supplementary Series 3: 43-47 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 236 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 59 [secondary reference]

Christophel, D.C. & Hyland, B.P.M. in Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993), Leaf Atlas of Australian Tropical Rain Forest Trees. Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system: 15, 36, 187, pl. 125(g), Code 377 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. (1993), Pittosporaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 182 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Pittosporum nativitatis Baker f. legitimate

Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993), Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system 1: 100, 127, 177, Code 377 [secondary reference]

common name: Rusty Pittosporum [n/a]

Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993), Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system 2: 384, Code 377 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Fruits of the Rainforest: 224-225, Fig. 451 [secondary reference]

common name: Rusty Pittosporum [n/a]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 310 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B., Elick, R.W. & Ford, A.J. (1999), Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs. Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs: 80 [secondary reference]

Cayzer, L.W., Crisp, M.D. & Telford, I.R.H. (15 December 2000), Revision of Pittosporum (Pittosporaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 13(6): 888 APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Pittosporum melanospermum var. ? lateralis Benth. legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld

Cayzer, L.W., Crisp, M.D. & Telford, I.R.H. (15 December 2000), Revision of Pittosporum (Pittosporaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 13(6): 892 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Pittosporum nativitatis Baker f. legitimate by Bakker, K. & Steenis, C.G.G.J. van (March 1957), Pittosporaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 5(3): 355-356

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Pittosporum nativitatis Baker f. legitimate by Du Puy, D.J. (1993), Pittosporaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 182

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 402 [secondary reference]

common name: Rusty Pittosporum [n/a]

Cayzer, L.W. & Chandler, G.T. (18 December 2017), Pittosporum tinifolium A.Cunn.: a corrected name and reinstatement at species level for the Queensland species currently known as the rusty-leaved pittosporum, Pittosporum ferrugineum subspecies linifolium (A.Cunn.) L.Cayzer et al. (Pittosporaceae). Austrobaileya 10(1): 206 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pittosporum ferrugineum W.T.Aiton subsp. ferrugineum legitimate

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (August 2018), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2017 to 2018. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2018: 11 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pittosporum ferrugineum W.T.Aiton subsp. ferrugineum legitimate

Cayzer, L.W., Utteridge, T.M.A., & Chandler, G.T. (27 July 2023), Pittosporum (Pittosporaceae) in Malesia and Papuasia. Australian Systematic Botany 36(3): 233-234 [secondary reference]

• Type: "‘Nat. of Guinea. Introd. Before 1787, by the Right Hon. The Earl of Tankerville.’...ex hort. Kew, leg. ign., 1795 (holo: BM 61147!)."

• Etymology: "The specific epithet refers to the distinctive, rusty-brown indumentum covering new shoots, leaves and inflorescences at least initially in this species."

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