 In his book "On the natural order of plants called Proteaceae" that Robert Brown published in 1810, the species was reassigned to the new genus "Leucospermum", but he combined it with Brown's invalid simplified species name to "Leucospermum conocarpum".In 1874, Heinrich Wilhelm Buek made the correct combination "Leucospermum conocarpodendron".Another form was described by Michael Gandoger in 1901, and he called it "Leucospermum macowanii".