Brown, R. (8 March 1810), On the Proteaceae of Jussieu. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 10(1): 157 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 67 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 165, 166 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 28-29, 195 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 181 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 182 [secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 530-531 (map) [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Greek, symphio, to unite or glue together, and nema, a thread, referring to the anther filaments (or stalks), which are united at the top, just under the anthers."

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Symphionema. Flora of New South Wales 2: 19 [secondary reference]

Telford, I.R.H. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Symphionema. Flora of Australia 16: 133 [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Symphyonema Spreng. orth. var.

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Symphionema. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 20 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Symphyonema Spreng. orth. var.

• APC Comment: The generic name Symphionema is neuter gender (ICBN Art. 62.2 (c)). In much early Australian literature (including Chapman, APNI, 1991) it was treated as feminine.
• APC Dist.: NSW

Weston, P.H. & Barker, N.P. (13 November 2006), A new suprageneric classification of the Proteaceae, with an annotated checklist of genera. Telopea 11(3): 330 [secondary reference]

Weston, P.H. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Proteaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 9: 385, Fig. 135 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 833 [secondary reference]

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