(1939), Decades Kewensis. Plantarum novarum in Herbario Horti Regii Conservatarum. Decas CXXXIII. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1939(4): 183 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "W. AUSTRALIA. Yuna, 30–40 miles N.E. of Geraldton; cultivated at Blackwood, S. Australia, Ashby 39 (type)."

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

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 158 (fig., map) [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Named after Edwin Ashby...who first collected and cultivated this species and from whose cultivated plant the species was described."

George, A.S. (25 January 1996), New taxa and a new infrageneric classification in Dryandra R.Br. (Proteaceae: Grevilleoideae). Nuytsia 10(3): 346 [basionym]

basionym of: Dryandra fraseri var. ashbyi (B.L.Burtt) A.S.George legitimate

George, A.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1999), Dryandra. Flora of Australia 17B: 285 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Dryandra fraseri var. ashbyi (B.L.Burtt) A.S.George legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Banksia fraseri var. ashbyi (B.L.Burtt) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele legitimate

Mast, A.R. & Thiele, K.R. (26 February 2007), The transfer of Dryandra R.Br. to Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 20(1): 68 [basionym]

basionym of: Banksia fraseri var. ashbyi (B.L.Burtt) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele legitimate

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