Mueller, F.J.H. von (1867), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(43): 80, t. 55, 56 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Carnarvonia araliifolia F.Muell.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 71 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 454 [secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 128 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After the fourth Earl of Carnarvon, Henry Molyneux Herbert (1831-90), Undersecretary for the Colonies 1858-66."

Hyland, B.P.M. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Carnarvonia. Flora of Australia 16: 343 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 408 [secondary reference]

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): 333 [secondary reference]

Weston, P.H. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Proteaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 9: 391, Fig. 137 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 153 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Canarvonia F.Muell. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: Qld

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