Brown, R. (1830), Proteaceas Novas. Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae: 6 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ora occid.-merid., King George's Sound, 1829. W. Baxter."

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, crispatus, irregularly twisted or curled; presumably refers to the leaves."

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: 159-160, Map 141 [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): 59-60 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Petrophila crispata R.Br. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA

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