Gardner, C.A. (1936), Contributiones Florae Australiae Occidentalis, IX. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 22: 122 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Austin District: 16 miles west of Meeberrie Homestead on the Murchison River, in red sand in thickets of Grevillea eriostachya Lindl., W.E. Blackall and C.A. Gardner, 24th August, 1931. ... The type is Gardner 2537 in the State Herbarium."

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 62 [secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 336 (map) [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Greek, stenos, narrow, and stachys, a spike; refers to the narrow flowering raceme."

McGillivray, D.J & Makinson, R.O. (1993), Grevillea, Proteaceae: a taxonomic revision: 394-395 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: PERTH; isolecto: K, PERTH; remaining syn: PERTH.

Olde, P.M. & Marriott, N.R. (1995), The Grevillea Book 3: 186-187 (Plate 151, fig., map) [secondary reference]

Makinson, R.O. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2000), Grevillea. Flora of Australia 17A: 442, Fig. 40, Map 446 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

Christenhusz, M.J.M., Fay, M.F. & Byng, J.W. (9 February 2018), GLOVAP Nomenclature Part 1. The Global Flora: a practical flora to vascular plant species of the world 4: 90 [basionym]

basionym of: Hakea stenostachya (C.A.Gardner) Christenh. & Byng legitimate

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