Mueller, F.J.H. von (1876), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 10(82): 46 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ad montem Churchmanii cum P. comata; Young."

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

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 579 [basionym]

basionym of: Linkia diadena (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 65 [secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 494 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Persoonia saundersiana Kippist legitimate

Weston, P.H. (18 September 1994), The Western Australian species of subtribe Persooniinae (Proteaceae: Persooniodeae: Persoonieae). Telopea 6(1): 152 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (here designated): on a sheet labelled 'Persoonia [trigonophylla crossed out] diadena FvM Near Mt Churchman Young' (MEL 103665, photo NSW). The specimen on the right-hand side of the sheet is designated lectotype. ... Isolectotype: K.

Weston, P.H. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Proteaceae subfam. 1. Persoonioideae. Flora of Australia 16: 122 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Persoonia saundersiana Kippist legitimate

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