Drummond, J. in Hooker, W.J. (1842), Botanical intelligence from Swan River. London Journal of Botany 1: 628 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (none cited).

Jones, D.L. (1988), Supplement: new species, discoveries and name changes. Native Orchids of Australia: 624 [secondary reference]

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 73 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "`Swan River', J. Drummond s.n. (lectotype K! isolectotype K!)."

taxonomic synonym: Drakaea fitzgeraldii Schltr. legitimate misapplication: Drakaea elastica Lindl. legitimate by Fitzgerald, R.D. (January 1884), Australian Orchids 2(1): 4th plate

Hopper, S.D., van Leeuwen, S.J., Brown, A.P. & Patrick, S.J. (1990), Western Australia's Endangered Flora: 53, Fig. 102 [secondary reference]

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1992), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2: 197 [secondary reference]

common name: Warty Hammer Orchid [n/a]

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1998), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 2 (revised): 197 [secondary reference]

common name: Warty Hammer Orchid [n/a]

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 85 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 367 [secondary reference]

common name: Warty Hammer Orchid [n/a]

Hopper, S.D. & Brown, A.P. (22 June 2007), A revision of Australia's hammer orchids (Drakaea: Orchidaceae), with some field data on species-specific sexually deceived wasp pollinators. Australian Systematic Botany 20(3): 275-278, Figs 3, 5a, 21, 22, 27 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Drakaea fitzgeraldii Schltr. legitimate misapplication: Drakaea elastica Lindl. legitimate by Fitzgerald, R.D. (January 1884), Australian Orchids 2(1): 4th plate

Brown, A., Dundas, P., Dixon, K. & Hopper, S. (2008), Orchids of Western Australia: 180 [secondary reference]

common name: Warty hammer orchid [n/a]

• Etymology: "discoloured by bruises, alluding to the blotched floral colouration"

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (2011), Orchids of South-West Australia Edn. 3: 234 [secondary reference]

common name: Warty Hammer Orchid [n/a]

Miller, J.T. & Clements, M.A. (30 June 2014), Molecular phylogenetic analyses of Drakaeinae: Diurideae (Orchidaceae) based on DNA sequences of the internal transcribed spacer region. Australian Systematic Botany 27(1): 21-22 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Drakaea fitzgeraldii Schltr. legitimate misapplication: Drakaea elastica Lindl. legitimate by Fitzgerald, R.D. (January 1884), Australian Orchids 2(1): 4th plate

Backhouse, G.N., Bates, R.J., Brown, A.P. & Copeland, L.M. (1 March 2016), Checklist of the orchids of Australia including its island territories: 27, 129 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Drakaea fitzgeraldii Schltr. legitimate misapplication: Drakaea elastica Lindl. legitimate by Fitzgerald, R.D. (January 1884), Australian Orchids 2(1): 4th plate

• APC Dist.: WA

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 282 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Drakaea fitzgeraldii Schltr. legitimate common name: Warty Hammer Orchid [n/a]

Brown, A. (19 July 2022), The Complete Orchids of Western Australia 1: 298 [secondary reference]

common name: Warty Hammer Orchid [n/a]

• Etymology: "From the Latin livida (blush), in reference to the colour of the leaf."

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