Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(69): 236 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ad flumen Murchisoni, Oldfield; alibique in Australia occidentali secundum collectionem Drummondi (342)."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 123 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 45 [secondary reference]

Briggs, B.G. & Johnson, L.A.S. in Meney, K.A. & Pate, J.S. (1 September 1999), A guide to a new classification of Australian Restionaceae and allied families. Australian Rushes: 47, 49 [secondary reference]

Meney, K.A. & Pate, J.S. (1 September 1999), Morphological and anatomical descriptions of Restionaceae and allied families and their distribution. Australian Rushes: 288-289 [secondary reference]

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 61 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: WA

Briggs, B.G. (16 February 2011), Ecdeiocolea rigens, a new species of Ecdeiocoleaceae (Poales) from Western Australia. Telopea 13(1-2): 70 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Drummond 2nd collection 342 (MEL 15088!; isolectotypes MEL 15087!, Drummond Swan River K!).

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