 Johann Jacob Reichard in 1779 reassigned the species to "Protea", creating the new combination "P. conocarpodendron".In 1781, Carl Peter Thunberg simplified the species name and created "P. conocarpa", but because he used the same type as Linnaeus, he should have used the unchanged name.Richard Anthony Salisbury created two superfluous names, "Protea tortuosa" in 1796 and "Leucadendrum crassicaule" in 1809.