Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 739 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: See proposal to conserve & retypify by R.M.Polhill, Taxon 27 (1978) 556–559.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 328 [secondary reference]

Ewart, A.J. & Rees, B. (1913), Contributions to the Flora of Australia, No. 20. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 26(1): 2 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 2: 350 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Cytisus hirsutus L.

Lee, A.T. & Thompson, J. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 101(2): 171-173 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Fabaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 825-826 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Cytisus Desf. nom. cons.

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