Planchon, J.E. in Hooker, W.J. (1845), Description de deux genres nouveaux de la famille des Euphorbiacees. London Journal of Botany 4: 471, t. 15 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Prope Flumen Cygnorum, legit Drummond."

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 109 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 455 [secondary reference]

Halford, D.A. & Henderson, R.J.F. (3 December 2003), Studies in Euphorbiaceae A.L.Juss. sens. lat. 5. A revision of Pseudanthus Sieber ex Spreng. and Stachystemon Planch. (Oldfieldioideae Kohler & Webster, Caletieae Mull.Arg.). Austrobaileya 6(3): 524-525, Map 18 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: [Western Australia.] Swan River, [without date,] [J.] Drummond s.n. (lecto, here chosen: K (specimen on far right of sheet (ex herb. Hook.)).

nomenclatural synonym: Pseudanthus vermicularis (Planch.) F.Muell. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Stachystemon vermiculare Planch. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Pseudanthus vermicularis (Planch.) F.Muell. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

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