 The first herbarium collection of "B. epica" was not made until October 1973, when Ernest Charles Nelson visited Toolinna Cove to collect specimens for a taxonomic revision of "Adenanthos".Nelson was stimulated to make that revision from an interest in the problem of disjunct plant distributions in southern Australia, and therefore collected specimens of a range of plant species.On 22 October, he collected a specimen of "B. epica" in old flower, but incorrectly identified it as "B. media", and later lodged it in the herbarium at Canberra under that name.