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. vi. n. 167

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: 502 (map) [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Latin, conifer, bearing cones. As all Petrophile spp. bear cones there appears to be little reason for giving this species selective treatment."

Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Petrophile. Flora of Australia 16: 158, Fig. 83, Map 137 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

Rye, B.L., Hislop, M., Shepherd, K.A. & Hollister, C. (29 August 2011), New south-western Australian members of the genus Petrophile (Proteaceae: Petrophileae), including a hybrid. Nuytsia 21(2): 45 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Petrophila conifera Meisn. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA

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