Brown, R. (1830), Proteaceas Novas. Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae: 30 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ora septent.-occid., Bay of Rest, 1818. A. Cunningham."

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: 64 [secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 402, 405 (map) [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Greek, stenos, narrow, and phyllon, a leaf."

Barker, R.M. (17 February 1998), The Hakea pedunculata group of species (Proteaceae) and a new subspecies of Hakea stenophylla from Western Australia. Nuytsia 12(1): 5 [secondary reference]

Barker, R.M., Haegi, L. & Barker, W.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1999), Hakea. Flora of Australia 17B: 48-49 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

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