Meney, K.A., Pate, J.S. & Dixon, K.W. (1 July 1996), New species of Restionaceae from Western Australia. Telopea 6(4): 664, Fig. 9 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "South-western Western Australia, S.W. Botanical Province, Gingin (31 21 S 115 54 E) to Cataby (30 45 S 115 33 E) Meney & Pate KM 9091, 6 September 90 (holotype KPBG; isotype PERTH). Growing in deep sand."

• APC Dist.: WA

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: 432-433 [secondary reference]

Barrett, R.L. & Briggs, B.G. (17 December 2009), Lectotypification of ten Restionaceae species names from south-west Western Australia. Nuytsia 19(2): 207-208 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: 'Gingin (31 21' S, 115 54' E) to Cataby (30 45' S, 115 33' E) Meney & Pate KM 9091, 6 September 90 (holotype KPBG; isotype PERTH).' [Both lost]. Type specimen: west of Brand Highway, Western Australia [precise locality withheld for conservation reasons], September 1990, K. Meney s.n. male (lecto, here designated: PERTH 08027935 (ex KPBG); isolecto: PERTH 08027927 (ex KPBG)).

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 microcarpus (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: 129 [nomenclatural synonym]

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

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