Meisner, C.D.F. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1848), Thymelaeae. Plantae Preissianae 2(2-3): 272 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Swan River, Drummond. coll. III. No. 207 et? (folia tantum inferiora) No. 291."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 18 [secondary reference]

Rechinger, K.H. (24 October 1984), Rumex (Polygonaceae) in Australia: a reconsideration. Nuytsia 5(1): 99-101, Figs 2D, 7B [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Rumex flexuosiformis Rech.f. legitimate pro parte misapplication: Rumex pulcher L. legitimate by Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 264 pro parte misapplication: Rumex flexuosus Sol. ex Spreng. legitimate by Rechinger, K.H. (24 October 1984), Rumex (Polygonaceae) in Australia: a reconsideration. Nuytsia 5(1): 99

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 68 [secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Polygonaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 116 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. (14 November 1996), Nomenclatural notes on Polygonaceae in Australia. Telopea 7(1): 90-92 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Western Australia: Swan River, Drummond 207 [sic]; lecto (here designated) NY (consisting of a few fruits in a packet mounted on the type sheet of R. muelleri, q.v.); possible isolecto NY (mounted on sheet with fragment of R. brownii collected by Lesson in the Blue Mountains of N.S.W.).

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

taxonomic synonym: Rumex flexuosiformis Rech.f. legitimate doubtful taxonomic synonym: Rumex oxysepalus Meisn. legitimate pro parte misapplication: Rumex flexuosus Sol. ex Spreng. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 31 pro parte misapplication: Rumex flexuosus Sol. ex Spreng. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 53 misapplication: Rumex pulcher L. legitimate by Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 264

• APC Dist.: WA

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

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 338 [secondary reference]

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