Nelson, E.C. (27 October 1978), A taxonomic revision of the genus Adenanthos (Proteaceae). Brunonia 1(3): 346, fig. 13 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "8 miles north of Point Charles, Fitzgerald River National Park, –.i.1974, K. Newbey (ANU17421); holo CANB 237053."

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

Nelson, E.C. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Adenanthos. Flora of Australia 16: 330, Fig. 156, Map 371 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

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

orthographic variant: Adenanthos glabrescens subsp. exasperata E.C.Nelson orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA

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