Meisner, C.D.F. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1855), New Proteaceae of Australia. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 7: 72 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Drummond, coll. vi. n. 176"

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 rufiflora (Meisn.) 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 (map) [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Persoonia scabrella Meisn. legitimate

• Etymology: "From Latin, rufus, reddish, and flos, a flower, referring to the rusty red hairs on the flowers."

Weston, P.H. (18 September 1994), The Western Australian species of subtribe Persooniinae (Proteaceae: Persooniodeae: Persoonieae). Telopea 6(1): 93-95, Fig. 14b (map) [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (here designated): a sheet annotated by Mesiner 'Persoonia rufiflora nob. (10.Nov.1854.) Interior North of Swan River A. 1850-51 legit. Drummond Coll. VI (accepta 1854.) No 176! D.am. Shuttl. Nov. 1854.' (NY). Isolectotypes: BM, CGE, G (n.v., photo NSW), G-DC (n.v., photo NSW), K (2 sheets), MEL, NSW (2 sheets), PERTH (n.v.)

nomenclatural synonym: Linkia rufiflora (Meisn.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Persoonia scabrella Meisn. legitimate

Weston, P.H. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Proteaceae subfam. 1. Persoonioideae. Flora of Australia 16: 62, Fig. 37, Map 7 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Linkia rufiflora (Meisn.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Persoonia scabrella Meisn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Linkia scabrella (Meisn.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

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