Brown, R. (1830), Proteaceas Novas. Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae: 29 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ora occid.-merid., King George's Sound, 1829. WD. Baxter."

Meisner, C.D.F. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1852), A list of Proteaceae collected in south-western Australia by Mr James Drummond. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 4: 209 [secondary reference]

Meisner, C.D.F. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1856), Proteaceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 14(1): 414 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 71 [secondary reference]

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35(2-3): 164 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 63 [secondary reference]

Lamont, B., Keighery, B., Penny, L. & Wallace, J. (1987), A numeric, geographic and structural analysis of the Hakea falcata group (Proteaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 94: 433-451 [secondary reference]

• Type: South West Coast of New Holland [WA], 1828/29, W. Baxter s.n.?

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 375 (map) [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Latin, falcatus, falcate or sickle-shaped, referring to the leaves of some forms of the species."

Barker, R.M., Haegi, L. & Barker, W.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1999), Hakea. Flora of Australia 17B: 128-130, Fig. 16F, Map 119 [secondary reference]

Barker, R.M., Haegi, L. & Barker, W.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1999), Hakea. Flora of Australia 17B: 148 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Hakea erecta Lamont legitimate by Meisner, C.D.F. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1852), A list of Proteaceae collected in south-western Australia by Mr James Drummond. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 4: 209

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Hakea erecta Lamont legitimate by Meisner, C.D.F. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1856), Proteaceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 14(1): 414

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 833 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Hakea falcata R.Br. var. falcata legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

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