Meisner, C.D.F. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1848), Proteaceae. Plantae Preissianae 2(2-3): 248 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Swan River, Drummond coll. II. No. 304."

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

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 59 [secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 135 (map) [secondary reference]

common name: blue-eyed smoke bush [n/a]

• Etymology: "Named after Robert Brown"

Bennett, E.M. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Conospermum. Flora of Australia 16: 243-245, Figs 64, 107, Map 253 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

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