Brown, R. (1830), Proteaceas Novas. Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae: 28 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ora merid.-occid., Swan River, 1827. C. Fraser."

Hooker, W.J. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1842), Icones Plantarum 5: t. 443 [secondary reference]

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: 63 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Proteaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 339, Fig. 115, 117 [secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 369-370 (fig., map) [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Latin, cristatus, crested, referring to the strange crest on the top side of the woody fruit."

Barker, R.M., Haegi, L. & Barker, W.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1999), Hakea. Flora of Australia 17B: 84, Map 62 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

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