Cunningham, A. in Field, B. (ed.) (April 1825), On the botany of the Blue Mountains. Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales: 327 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "a large shrub, at about eighteen miles on the Blue Mountains."

Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 513 [secondary reference]

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

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 168 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 18 [secondary reference]

common name: Needle Bush [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 187 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 180 [secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 396 (map) [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hakea pachyphylla Sieber ex Spreng. legitimate

• Etymology: "From Latin, propinquus, near or neighbouring. Cunningham commented on the similarity of this species to H. nodosa."

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Hakea. Flora of New South Wales 2: 60 [secondary reference]

Barker, W.R. (29 August 1996), Novelties and taxonomic notes relating to Hakea (Proteaceae), mainly of eastern Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 17: 202 [secondary reference]

Barker, R.M., Haegi, L. & Barker, W.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1999), Hakea. Flora of Australia 17B: 66, Fig. 5A-C, Map 39 APC [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Hakea verrucosa F.Muell. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1865), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 5(31): 25

• APC Dist.: NSW

Barker, R.M., Haegi, L. & Barker, W.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1999), Hakea. Flora of Australia 17B: 67 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Hakea pachyphylla Sieber ex Spreng. legitimate by Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 513

Barker, R.M., Harden, G.J., Haegi, L. & Barker, W.R. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Hakea. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 74 [secondary reference]

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