Meisner, C.D.F. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1855), New Proteaceae of Australia. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 7: 69 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Drummond, coll. vi. n. 169."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 65 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 577 [basionym]

basionym of: Atylus linearis (Meisn.) Kuntze legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 64 [secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 433 (map), 437 (plate) [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Latin, linearis, linear, referring to the narrow leaves."

Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Isopogon. Flora of Australia 16: 214, Fig. 103, Map 213 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Atylus linearis (Meisn.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

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