Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 387 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "W. Australia. King George's Sound, Harvey; Hay and Kalgan rivers, F. Mueller; near Three-mile Plain, Maxwell; Forest Hill, Muir."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 113 [secondary reference]

George, A.S. (5 May 1971), A check list of the Orchidaceae of Western Australia. Nuytsia 1(2): 169 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: King George Sound, Harvey - lecto.: K; Forest Hill, Muir - iso.: K; Hay and Kalgan Rivers, F. Mueller - not seen; Three-miles Plain, Maxwell - not seen.

Hoffman, N. & Brown, A. (1984), Orchids of South-West Australia: 156-157 [secondary reference]

common name: Leafless Orchid [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 54 [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), Orchidaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 812 [secondary reference]

common name: Leafless Orchid [n/a]

Jones, D.L. (1988), Native Orchids of Australia: 93-94 [secondary reference]

common name: Leafless Caladenia [n/a]

Clements, M.A. in Jones, D.L. (ed.) (August 1989), Catalogue of Australian Orchidaceae. Australian Orchid Research 1: 20 [secondary reference]

Hopper, S.D. & Brown, A.P. (June 2000), New genera , subgenera, combinations, and species in the Caladenia alliance (Orchidaceae: Diurideae). Lindleyana 15(2): 124 [basionym]

basionym of: Praecoxanthus aphyllus (Benth.) Hopper & A.P.Br. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (28 February 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Praecoxanthus aphyllus (Benth.) Hopper & A.P.Br. legitimate

Jones, D.L. (January 2021), Native Orchids of Australia Edn. 3: 211 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Praecoxanthus aphyllus (Benth.) Hopper & A.P.Br. legitimate

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