Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 28 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st coll."

Macfarlane, T.D. (30 December 1980), A revision of Wurmbea (Liliaceae) in Australia. Brunonia 3(2): 178-179, Fig. 14, Map 2 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 51 [secondary reference]

Macfarlane, T.D. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Wurmbea. Flora of Australia 45: 396, Fig. 117, Map 450 [secondary reference]

Hopper, S.D., van Leeuwen, S.J., Brown, A.P. & Patrick, S.J. (1990), Western Australia's Endangered Flora: 20, 81, Fig. 236 [secondary reference]

common name: York gum Nancy [n/a]

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

orthographic variant: Wurmbea drummondi Benth. orth. var.

• APC Comment: Natural hybrids are known between W. drummondii and W. tenella.
• APC Dist.: WA

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