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: 57 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Northern districts (n. 94)."

Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 43 [secondary reference]

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

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): 499 [secondary reference]

Munir, A.A. (29 December 1978), Taxonomic revision of Chloanthaceae trib. Physopsidae. Brunonia 1(4): 492-496, Fig. 15, Map 5 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "J. Drummond 4th Coll. no. 94: loc. incert., `Northern districts', Western Australia, –? `1848' (TCD, lectotype; CGE, E, G, K, KW, MEL, NSW, P, W)."

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 144 [secondary reference]

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 212 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. (16 December 2005), A taxonomic review of Dicrastylis sect. Corymbosae (Lamiaceae: Chloantheae), incorporating Mallophora as a new synonym. Nuytsia 15(3): 451, Fig. 1 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

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

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Dicrastyles reticulata Benth. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA

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