Linnaeus, C. (October 1767), Mantissa Plantarum 1: 187 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: nom. cons. (ref. I.C.B.N. (1988) No. 2035).

Salisbury, R.A. (1796), Prodromus Stirpium in Horto ad Chapel Allerton Vigentium: 48 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 609, 610 [secondary reference]

Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M., Chaloner, W.G., Demoulin, V., Grolle, R., Hawkesworth, D.L., Nicolson, D.H., Silva, P.C., Stafleu, F.A., Voss, E.G. & McNeill, J. (ed.) (1988), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Berlin, 1988. Regnum Vegetabile 118: 190 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Protea cynaroides L. (typ. cons.)

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): 332 [secondary reference]

Weston, P.H. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Proteaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 9: 388, Fig. 136 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 702 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2019), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised)

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