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• Type: "In coloniâ Swan River (Drummond coll. 4, n. 265!)."

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): 338-342 [secondary reference]

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

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Nelson, E.C. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Adenanthos. Flora of Australia 16: 326, Fig. 156, Map 364 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

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