Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(48): 204 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ad promontorium Point Malcolm. Maxw."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 66 [secondary reference]

Nelson, E.C. (27 October 1978), A taxonomic revision of the genus Adenanthos (Proteaceae). Brunonia 1(3): 348-349 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 58 [secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 63-64, 68 [secondary reference]

Nelson, E.C. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Adenanthos. Flora of Australia 16: 329, Fig. 156, Map 369 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Adenanthos dobsoni F.Muell. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA

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