Meisner, C.D.F. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1845), Proteaceae. Plantae Preissianae 1(4): 515 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In regionibus interioribus Australiae meridionali-occidentalis, m. Oct. 1840. Herb. Preiss. No. 671."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(65): 66 [secondary reference]

Nelson, E.C. (27 October 1978), A taxonomic revision of the genus Adenanthos (Proteaceae). Brunonia 1(3): 349-351 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Adenanthos armatus Meisn. legitimate

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

Hopper, S.D., van Leeuwen, S.J., Brown, A.P. & Patrick, S.J. (1990), Western Australia's Endangered Flora: 16, 35, Fig. 22 [secondary reference]

common name: Spiky Adenanthos [n/a]

Nelson, E.C. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Adenanthos. Flora of Australia 16: 328 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

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