Lehmann, J.G.C. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1855), Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 7: 68 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Drummond, coll. vi. n. 168" [Between Moore and Murchison Rivers]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 65 [secondary reference]

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: 500 (map) [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Latin, bi-, two, and ternatus, in threes. Some leaves are divided into threes twice."

Hopper, S.D., van Leeuwen, S.J., Brown, A.P. & Patrick, S.J. (1990), Western Australia's Endangered Flora: 118, 132 [secondary reference]

Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Petrophile. Flora of Australia 16: 180, Map 167 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Petrophila biternata Meisn. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA

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