Mueller, F.J.H. von (1876), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 10(85): 90 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ad originem fluminis Ashburton's River; E. Giles."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 71 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 266 [secondary reference]

George, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Proteaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 20, Fig. 34N [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 64 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 70 [secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 398 (map) [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Latin, rhombeus, rhombic, and ala, a wing, referring to the more or less rhomboid shape of the seed wing."

Barker, R.M., Haegi, L. & Barker, W.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1999), Hakea. Flora of Australia 17B: 78, Plate 2, Fig. 8G-J, Map 54 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT

Barker, R.M. & Barker, W.R. (2003), Hakea rhombales. Curtis's Botanical Magazine 20(2): 69-73, Plate 464 [secondary reference]

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