Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 801 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Neptunia spicata F.Muell. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Dichrostachys muelleri Benth. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 238 [secondary reference]

Maslin, B.R. (27 March 1975), Studies in the genus Acacia (Mimosaceae) - 4 A Revision of Series Pulchellae. Nuytsia 1(5): 480 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Acacia shirleyana Domin legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 90 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 51 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Mimosaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 339, Fig. 100D [secondary reference]

common name: Chinese Lantern [n/a]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 137 [secondary reference]

common name: Chinese Lantern [n/a]

Cowan, R.S. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Mimosaceae. Flora of Australia 12: 19-20, Figs 6, 35E-I, Map 18 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Neptunia spicata F.Muell. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Dichrostachys muelleri Benth. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Acacia shirleyana Domin legitimate common name: Needlebush [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

• Vernacular: Kirrimi (Mudburra)

Bean, A.R. (16 November 2022), A revision of Neptunia Lour. (Leguminosae: subfamily Caesalpinioideae, Mimosoid clade) in Australia and Malesia. Austrobaileya 12: 97 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Neptunia spicata F.Muell. legitimate

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