Nelson, E.C. (27 October 1978), A taxonomic revision of the genus Adenanthos (Proteaceae). Brunonia 1(3): 367, fig. 14 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "East Mount Barren, Fitzgerald River National Park, 12.x.1972, E.C. Nelson ANU16948; holo CANB 237037."

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: 70 (map) [secondary reference]

common name: woollybush [n/a]

Nelson, E.C. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Adenanthos. Flora of Australia 16: 338, Fig. 158, Map 386 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

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

orthographic variant: Adenanthos oreophila E.C.Nelson orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA

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