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• Type: Ophiorhiza mitreola L.

• Comment: Valid by reference to earlier description?

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xlv [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 349 [secondary reference]

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Fitzgerald, W.V. (1918), The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 3: 131 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. & Brown, E.A. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Mitreola. Flora of Australia 28: 63-64 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 660 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 551 [secondary reference]

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