Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(45): 158 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In Australia occidentali (Drummond, 237)."

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): 510 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1951), West Australian Wildflowers Edn. 8: 107 [secondary reference]

Munir, A.A. (29 December 1978), Taxonomic revision of Chloanthaceae trib. Physopsidae. Brunonia 1(4): 663-669, Fig. 51, Map 18 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "J. Drummond's 5th coll. no. 237, MEL 41202: from south-west of Western Australia, – 1848 (MEL, lectotype; G, K, M, MEL, P, W)."

taxonomic synonym: Lachnostachys cliftonii F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lachnostachys cordifolia S.Moore legitimate

Munir, A.A. (29 December 1978), Taxonomic revision of Chloanthaceae trib. Physopsidae. Brunonia 1(4): 600 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Newcastelia hexarrhena F.Muell. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(45): 158

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

taxonomic synonym: Lachnostachys cliftonii F.Muell. legitimate

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: 554 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Lachnostachys cliftonii F.Muell. legitimate

Rye, B.L. (31 July 1996), A taxonomic review of the genera Lachnostachys, Newcastelia and Physopsis (Chloanthaceae) in Western Australia. Nuytsia 11(1): 88-89, Fig. 1 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Lachnostachys dempsteri E.Pritz. legitimate

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

common name: Lambstail [n/a]

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

misapplied to: Newcastelia hexarrhena F.Muell. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1951), West Australian Wildflowers Edn. 8: 107

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

• APC Dist.: WA

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