Brown, R. (1830), Proteaceas Novas. Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae: 7 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ora merid.-occid., Swan River, 1827. D. Fraser."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 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: 353 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Petrophile squamata R.Br. legitimate

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 508 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Petrophile squamata R.Br. legitimate

Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Appendix: Petrophile. Flora of Australia 16: 476-477 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Swan River [W.A., 1827], C.Fraser 4; lecto (here chosen): BM; isolecto: BM.

Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Petrophile. Flora of Australia 16: 191 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Petrophile squamata R.Br. legitimate

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

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

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Petrophile squamata R.Br. legitimate

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): 64 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Petrophile squamata R.Br. legitimate

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