The type specimen was collected by Alex George on 4 August 1986, from a location on Piawaning Road north-west of Wongan Hills. George published a formal description of the species in 1996 in Nuytsia 10(3).
A representative example was collected by Alex George on 4 August 1986, from a specific location near Wongan Hills along Piawaning Road. This discovery was later formally described by George in 1996 in the journal Nuytsia 10(3).