Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 256 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, Coll. 1843, n. 25."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1881), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 11(93): 112 [basionym]

basionym of: Lasiopetalum laxiflorum (Benth.) F.Muell. legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 115 [secondary reference]

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 546 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 899-900 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Lasiopetalum laxiflorum (Benth.) F.Muell. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

Shepherd, K.A. & Wilkins, C.F. (3 July 2015), A revision of species from the tribe Lasiopetaleae (Byttnerioideae: Malvaceae) with rostrate anthers. Nuytsia 25: 182 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "‘Swan River [Western Australia], Drummond, Coll. 1843, n. 25.’ (lecto, here designated: K 000686006!; isolecto: ?CGE 13002!, G 00358676 image seen, G 00358677 image seen, K 000686005! [left hand specimen and fragment ‘a’], K 000686007!, LD 1628362!, MEL 236398!, NSW 383585!, PERTH 01626639 [fragment]!)."

Shepherd, K.A. & Wilkins, C.F. (3 July 2015), A revision of species from the tribe Lasiopetaleae (Byttnerioideae: Malvaceae) with rostrate anthers. Nuytsia 25: 182 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Lasiopetalum laxiflorum (Benth.) F.Muell. legitimate

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (31 March 2016), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2015. Nuytsia 27: 16 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Lasiopetalum laxiflorum (Benth.) F.Muell. legitimate

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