| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel, 1866 - plants |
| divisio | Magnoliophyta - flowering plants |
| class | Liliopsida - monocotyledons |
| order | Poales Small |
| family | Restionaceae R. Br. |
| subfamily | Leptocarpoideae Briggs & Linder |
| genus | Harperia W. Fitzg. |
| species | Harperia ferruginipes K.A. Meney & J.S. Pate |