Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(49): 242 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In insula Kangaroo-Island. Waterhouse."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 65 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 158 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 262 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. (19 December 1977), Endangered species in the South Australian native vascular flora. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 1(2): 139 [secondary reference]

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

common name: wild Irishman [n/a]

• Etymology: "From Latin, multi-, many, and sectus, a cut, referring to the much-divided leaves."

Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Petrophile. Flora of Australia 16: 157-158, Fig. 83, Map 136 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: SA

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

orthographic variant: Petrophila multisecta F.Muell. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: SA

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