Meisner, C.D.F. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1855), New Proteaceae of Australia. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 7: 67 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Drummond, coll. v. Suppl. n. 3."

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: 501-502 (map) [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Latin, circinatus, coiled inwards from the tip, referring to the ultimate leaf segments, which are slightly curved inwards."

Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Petrophile. Flora of Australia 16: 159, Figs 31, 83, Map 140 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

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

orthographic variant: Petrophila circinata Meisn. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA

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