Meisner, C.D.F. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1855), New Proteaceae of Australia. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 7: 71 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Drummond, coll. vi. n. 175."

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: 139, 143 (map) [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Latin, nervosus, nerved; refers to the prominent leaf veins."

Bennett, E.M. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Appendix: Conospermum. Flora of Australia 16: 485 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "locality unknown [W.A.], J.Drummond 6:175; lecto (here chosen): MEL; isolecto: NSW, PERTH."

Bennett, E.M. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Conospermum. Flora of Australia 16: 250, Fig. 111, Map 264 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Conospermum nervosum var. subspathulatum Meisn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Conospermum nervosum var. ovalifolium Meisn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Conospermum diffusum Benth. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Conospermum nervosum Meisn. var. nervosum legitimate taxonomic synonym: Conospermum nervosum var. subspathulatum Meisn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Conospermum nervosum var. ovalifolium Meisn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Conospermum diffusum Benth. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

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