Lindley, J. (1 January 1840), A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony: liv. [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not cited).

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 112 [secondary reference]

George, A.S. (5 May 1971), A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2): 189 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Swan River, Drummond - lecto.: K-L, iso.: K; Cape Leeuwin, Collie - syn.: K-L.

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1984), Orchids of South-West Australia: 270-271 [secondary reference]

common name: Autumn Leek Orchid [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 56 [secondary reference]

Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 261-262 [secondary reference]

common name: Autunm Leek Orchid [n/a]

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 116 [secondary reference]

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2: 301 [secondary reference]

common name: Autumn Leek Orchid [n/a]

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised): 301 [secondary reference]

common name: Autumn Leek Orchid [n/a]

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 88 [secondary reference]

common name: Autumn Leek Orchid [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 378 [secondary reference]

common name: Scented Autumn Leek Orchid [n/a] common name: Autumn Leek Orchid [n/a]

Jones, D.L. & Clements, M.A. (June 2004), Miscellaneous new species, new genera, reinstated genera and new combinations in Australian Orchidaceae. The Orchadian, Scientific Supplement 14(8): xiv [basionym]

basionym of: Mecopodum parvifolium (Lindl.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate

Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia: 252 [secondary reference]

common name: Autumn leek orchid [n/a]

• Etymology: "small leaf, alluding to the small leaf of this species"

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3: 362 [secondary reference]

common name: Autumn Leek Orchid [n/a]

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: 236-237, photos 8-11 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Mecopodum parvifolium (Lindl.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate common name: Autumn Leek Orchid [n/a]

Backhouse, G.N., Bates, R.J., Brown, A.P. & Copeland, L.M. (1 March 2016), Checklist of the orchids of Australia including its island territories: 33, 131 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Mecopodum parvifolium (Lindl.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

Clements, M.A. & Jones, D.L. (2019), Notes on Australasian orchids 5: Paraprasophyllum, a new genus in Prasophyllinae (Diurideae). Australian Orchid Review 84(5): 27 [basionym]

basionym of: Corunastylis parvifolia (Lindl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 386 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Corunastylis parvifolia (Lindl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones legitimate

Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 2: 112 [secondary reference]

common name: Autumn Leek Orchid [n/a]

• Etymology: "From the Latin parvus (little, small, puny) and -folium (leaf), in reference to the short leaf part that extends from the flowering stem."

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