Hooker, W.J. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1842), Icones Plantarum 5: t. 414 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Swan River Colony, Australia. Mr. James Drummond.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 102 [secondary reference]

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35(2-3): 509, Fig. 57 A, B [secondary reference]

Munir, A.A. (29 December 1978), Taxonomic revision of Chloanthaceae trib. Physopsidae. Brunonia 1(4): 646-650, Fig. 48, Map 17 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Typus: J. Drummond s.n.: Swan River Colony, Western Australia, - 1839 (K, holotype; G)."

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 145 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Chloanthaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 553 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. (31 July 1996), A taxonomic review of the genera Lachnostachys, Newcastelia and Physopsis (Chloanthaceae) in Western Australia. Nuytsia 11(1): 84-85, Fig. 1 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 213 [secondary reference]

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [secondary reference]

Wilson, T.C., Radunz, E.A., Chen, S.H., Conn, B.J. & Henwood, M.J. (9 August 2021), A new genus and species for Chloantheae (Lamiaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 34(5): 501 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "here designated: K 975363 [central specimen]; isolecto: K 975363 [left specimen]; probable isolecto: K 975364 [diagonal right specimen on sheet with K 975363 specimens, closest to ‘13. Swan River Drummond’]; K 975362 [without collection number]; possible isolecto: G 366318 [left specimen])."

Wilson, T.C., Radunz, E.A., Chen, S.H., Conn, B.J. & Henwood, M.J. (9 August 2021), A new genus and species for Chloantheae (Lamiaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 34(5): 501 [basionym]

basionym of: Apatelantha albicans (Hook.) T.C.Wilson & Henwood legitimate

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (8 March 2022), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2021. Nuytsia 33: 8 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Apatelantha albicans (Hook.) T.C.Wilson & Henwood legitimate

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