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. 165"

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: 501 (map) [secondary reference]

• Neotype: "From Greek, chryso-, golden, and anthos, a flower."

Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Petrophile. Flora of Australia 16: 177, Fig. 94, Map 162 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

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

orthographic variant: Petrophila chrysantha Meisn. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA

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