Taxonomy
Details of the specimens used in the first description of the species are uncertain. The plant was probably first collected by Archibald Menzies, October 1791; the type collection was made by J Leschenault, in 1803, both at the King George Sound, Western Australia. William Baxter collected another early specimen in 1829.
It is the basionym of Chamelaucium plumosum Desf., and the plant was also described as Verticordia fontanesii DC. (1828) in a nomination no longer accepted.
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