Harvey, W.H. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1855), Characters of some new genera of plants recently discovered by Mr. James Drummond in Western Australia. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 7: 56 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 42 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 103 [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Dicrastyles Benth. orth. var.

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35(2-3): 496-497 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 381 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 480 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Greek dikroos, forked; stylos, style: alluding to the deeply cleft style."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 722 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Greek dikroos, forked; stylos, style: alluding to the deeply cleft style."

Munir, A.A. (29 December 1978), Taxonomic revision of Chloanthaceae trib. Physopsidae. Brunonia 1(4): 437-444, Maps 1-2 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Dicrastylis fulva Harvey

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 106 [secondary reference]

Munir, A.A. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Chloanthaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 297-299 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Chloanthaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 620 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Chloanthaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 795-797 [secondary reference]

Munir, A.A. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (September 1993), Chloanthaceae. A list of the vascular plants of South Australia Edn. 4: 76 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Dicrastyles Benth. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Mallophora Endl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lachnocephalus Turcz. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 270 [secondary reference]

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