Schauer, J.C. in Walpers, W.G. (December 1843), Supplementum I: Myrtaceae Subordo Xerocarpicae. Repertorium Botanices Systematicae 2(5): 923 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "van Diemen's Land (A. Cunn. hb. no 84)"

Thompson, J. (8 December 1989), A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 441 [secondary reference]

• Text: "Based on a specimen from Tasmania, A. Cunningham 84, that Bentham failed to find in Cunningham's herbarium. J.D. Hooker in 1856, in describing L. nitidum, suggested that this may be conspecific, but the description of the calyx suggests otherwise. Current searching has not located this specimen."

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

• APC Comment: A name of uncertain application (see J.Thompson, Telopea 3: 440 (1989)).

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 59 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Leptospermum lanigerum (Sol. ex Aiton) Sm. legitimate

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