Harvey, W.H. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1855), Characters of some new genera of plants recently discovered by Mr. James Drummond in Western Australia. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 7: 57 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Hab. On dry hills, near Perth and elsewhere."

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 48, 49 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Xanthorrhoea reflexa D.A.Herb. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 20 misapplication: Xanthorrhoea reflexa D.A.Herb. legitimate by Beard, J.S. in Beard, J.S. (ed.) (1965), Descriptive Catalogue of West Australian Plants: 11 misapplication: Xanthorrhoea reflexa D.A.Herb. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 21

Bedford, D.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Appendix: Xanthorrhoea. Flora of Australia 46: 226 APC [secondary reference]

• Neotype: "near Perth and elsewhere, W.A., J.L.Drummond s.n.; n.v.; Wedin siding, W.A., 28 Nov. 1982, D.Bedford 46 & T.D.Macfarlane; neo (here chosen): NSW; isoneo: PERTH."

• APC Dist.: WA

Bedford, D.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Xanthorrhoea. Flora of Australia 46: 158, Figs 35, 37H, 39A-B, Map 196 [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Xanthorrhoea reflexa D.A.Herb. legitimate by Herbert, D.A. (1920), Xanthorrhoea reflexa: a new species of blackboy. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 6(1): 33 misapplication: Xanthorrhoea reflexa D.A.Herb. legitimate by Blackall, W.E. & Grieve, B.J. (1954), How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the temperate regions of Western Australia 1: 70

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