Meisner, C.D.F. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1855), New Proteaceae of Australia. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 7: 74 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Drummond, coll. vi. n. 185."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 70 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 60 [secondary reference]

McGillivray, D.J & Makinson, R.O. (1993), Grevillea, Proteaceae: a taxonomic revision: 183-185, 402 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "(here designated): Interior North of Swan River A. 1850–51. legit Drummond, Coll. V. (accepta 1854) No 185! D. am. Shuttl. Nov. 1854. (NY–Meisner Herb.)"

Olde, P.M. & Marriott, N.R. (1995), The Grevillea Book 2: 12-13 (Plate 6, fig., map) [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Grevillea vestita var. stenogyne Benth. legitimate

• Etymology: "The specific epithet is derived from Greek acros (at the end or tip) and botrys (in botany, an inflorescence), a reference to the terminal conflorescences."

Makinson, R.O. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2000), Grevillea. Flora of Australia 17A: 427, Fig. 38, Map 428 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Grevillea acrobotrya Meisn. subsp. acrobotrya legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

Christenhusz, M.J.M., Fay, M.F. & Byng, J.W. (9 February 2018), GLOVAP Nomenclature Part 1. The Global Flora: a practical flora to vascular plant species of the world 4: 76 [basionym]

basionym of: Hakea acrobotrya (Meisn.) Christenh. & Byng legitimate

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