Steudel, E.G. von (1855), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 2(8-9): 158 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Drummond Coll. IV. nr. 350. N. Holl.

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 396 [secondary reference]

• Type: W. Australia, Drummond, n. 250 (350 according to Steudel).

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 128 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 14 [secondary reference]

Kükenthal, G. (1941), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae. XI. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 50: 114 [secondary reference]

• Type: West-Australien: Swan River 1848 (J. Drummond n. 250! in herb Delessert);

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 42 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 283 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Lepidosperma costale var. densispicatum Kük. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

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