Brown, R. (1830), Proteaceas Novas. Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae: 5 [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]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Proteaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 352 [secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 484 (plate), 505 (map) [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Petrophile juncifolia Lindl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Petrophile media var. juncifolia (Lindl.) Benth. legitimate

• Etymology: From Latin, medius, middle. Application is uncertain, but possibly Brown considered that the species was between P. teretifolia and P. longifolia in its leaf form."

Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Petrophile. Flora of Australia 16: 164, Map 149 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Petrophile media var. typica Domin nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Petrophile juncifolia Lindl. legitimate

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 844 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Petrophila media R.Br. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Petrophile media R.Br. var. media legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Petrophile media var. typica Domin nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: WA

Rye, B.L. & Hislop, M. (16 December 2005), A taxonomic update of Petrophile sect Arthrostigma (Proteaceae). Nuytsia 15(3): 472-473, FIg. 2 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Petrophile media var. typica Domin nom. inval.

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 152 [secondary reference]

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