 He republished the Queensland bottle tree as "Clompanus rupestris".German botanist Karl Moritz Schumann gave it its current binomial name in 1893, which was accepted by Achille Terraciano of the Orto botanico di Palermo and subsequent authorities, and remains current.In 1988 Gordon Guymer of the Queensland Herbarium published a taxonomic revision of "Brachychiton"; he classified "B. rupestris" in the section "Delabechea" along with the related and newly described Proserpine bottle tree.