Meney, K.A., Pate, J.S. & Dixon, K.W. (1 July 1996), New species of Restionaceae from Western Australia. Telopea 6(4): 651, Fig. 2 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Type: South-western Western Australia, S.W. Botanical Province between Geraldton (28 46 S 114 37 E) and Mullewa (28 32 S 115 30 E) Meney & Pate KM9401, 19 April 1994, (holotype KPBG; isotype PERTH). Growing in open heathland on red sandy loams.

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, 50 [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: 304-305 [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): 249, Fig. 1e [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

Barrett, R.L. & Briggs, B.G. (17 December 2009), Lectotypification of ten Restionaceae species names from south-west Western Australia. Nuytsia 19(2): 205 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: 'between Geraldton (28 46' S, 114 37' E) and Mullewa (28 32' S, 115 30' E), Meney & Pate KM9401, 19 April 1994 (holotype KPBG; isotype PERTH)' [both lost]. Type specimen: 'Known only from 3 closely located populations between Geraldton & Mullewa', Western Australia, April 1994, J.S. Pate s.n., female plant (lecto, here designated: PERTH 08027900 (ex UWA)).

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 ferruginipes (Meney & Pate) 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: 125 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Desmocladus ferruginipes (Meney & Pate) B.G.Briggs legitimate

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