Steudel, E.G. von (1855), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 2(10): 249 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Drummond coll. III. nr. 327. N. Holl."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 124 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 45 [secondary reference]

Briggs, B.G. & Johnson, L.A.S. in Meney, K.A. & Pate, J.S. (1 September 1999), A guide to a new classification of Australian Restionaceae and allied families. Australian Rushes: 44, 52 [secondary reference]

Meney, K.A. & Pate, J.S. (1 September 1999), Morphological and anatomical descriptions of Restionaceae and allied families and their distribution. Australian Rushes: 430-431 [secondary reference]

Briggs, B.G. & Johnson, L.A.S. (6 July 2001), New species of Harperia, Loxocarya, Onychosepalum, Platychorda and Tremulina (Restionaceae) in Western Australia. Telopea 9(2): 253, Fig. 3d [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

Briggs, B.G. (21 March 2014), Desmocladus (Restionaceae) enlarged to include the Western Australian genera Harperia, Kulinia and Onychosepalum. Telopea 17: 32 [basionym]

basionym of: Desmocladus laxiflorus (Steud.) B.G.Briggs legitimate

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (16 March 2017), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2016. Nuytsia 28: 129 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Desmocladus laxiflorus (Steud.) B.G.Briggs legitimate

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