Meisner, C.D.F. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1848), Proteaceae. Plantae Preissianae 2(2-3): 246 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Swan River, Drummond. coll. II. no. 298. Herb. Shuttleworth."

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: 508 (map), 517 (plate) [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Named after Robert J. Shuttleworth (1810-74)"

Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Petrophile. Flora of Australia 16: 183, Figs 52, 96, Map 172 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

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

orthographic variant: Petrophila shuttleworthiana Meisn. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA

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