Briggs, B.G. & Johnson, L.A.S. (21 December 1998), New combinations arising from a new classification of non-African Restionaceae. Telopea 8(1): 28 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Restio confertospicatus Steud. legitimate

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: 300-301 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Harperia confertospicatus B.G.Briggs & L.A.S.Johnson orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Restio confertospicatus Steud. legitimate

• 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 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Desmocladus confertospicatus (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: 125 [nomenclatural synonym]

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

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

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

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