Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 11 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Drummond, 5th coll. n. 429, F. Mueller; dense thickets N. of Israelite Bay, Maxwell."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 73 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 583 [basionym]

basionym of: Banksia brachyphylla (Benth.) Kuntze nom. illeg.

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 118 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. (9 May 1988), A revision of Western Australian Thymelaeaceae. Nuytsia 6(2): 259-261, Fig. 71, 74 (map) [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "south-western Australia, 1848, J. Drummond coll. 5, n. 429 (lecto here designated: K; isolecto: MEL)."

nomenclatural synonym: Banksia brachyphylla (Benth.) Kuntze nom. illeg.

Rye, B.L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Thymelaeaceae. Flora of Australia 18: 208, Map 298 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Banksia brachyphylla (Benth.) Kuntze nom. illeg.

• APC Dist.: WA

Rye, B.L. (17 December 1999), An updated revision of Pimelea sect. Heterolaena (Thymelaeaceae), including two new taxa. Nuytsia 13(1): 165, Fig. 2A (map) [secondary reference]

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