Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1857), Nova genera et species aliquot rariores in Plagis Australiae Intratropicis nuperrime detecta. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 9: 22 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In eremae virgultis prope partem Australem rivi Sturt's Creek."

• Comment: Although Mueller does not provide a separate description for the species, the name is validly published under ICN Art. 38.5 (Shenzhen Code, 2018) via a descriptio generico-specifica.

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

Mueller, F.J.H. von (10 March 1884), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 1: 5 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1901), The Queensland Flora 4: 1165 [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): 503 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 381 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 267 [secondary reference]

Munir, A.A. (29 December 1978), Taxonomic revision of Chloanthaceae trib. Physopsidae. Brunonia 1(4): 615-619, Fig. 41, Map 14 [secondary reference]

Munir, A.A. (29 December 1978), Taxonomic revision of Chloanthaceae trib. Physopsidae. Brunonia 1(4): 622 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Newcastelia interrupta Munir legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1901), The Queensland Flora 4: 1165

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1: 206 [secondary reference]

Munir, A.A. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Chloanthaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 303 [secondary reference]

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

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Chloanthaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 375 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Newcastelia interrupta Munir legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1901), The Queensland Flora 4: 1165

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 80 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Chloanthaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 797, Fig. 244B [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): 96-97, Fig. 2 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Sturt's [Sturt] Creek, towards Mt Mueller, [Western Australia], March 1856, (holo: MEL 41017)."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Newcastlia cladotricha F.Muell. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT

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