Briggs, B.G. & Johnson, L.A.S. (21 December 1998), New combinations arising from a new classification of non-African Restionaceae. Telopea 8(1): 29 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Restio diffusus Spreng. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Restio laxus R.Br. legitimate

• Comment: nom. illeg., nom superfl., as the epithet laxus has priority over the epithet diffusus in the genus Leptocarpus (see ICN Art. 53 Note 4 (Shenzhen Code, 2018)) and thus ought to have been adopted by Briggs & Johnson.

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: 46, 50, 53 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Leptocarpus sp. C [n/a]

Meney, K.A. & Pate, J.S. (1 September 1999), Morphological and anatomical descriptions of Restionaceae and allied families and their distribution. Australian Rushes: 346-347 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 452 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Leptocarpus laxus (R.Br.) B.G.Briggs legitimate

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