Miller, P. (28 January 1754), The Gardeners Dictionary abridged Edn. 4, 3: [1280] [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Senna Alexandrina, sive foliis acutis C. B. P." [= Cassia senna L.].

Colladon, L.T.F. (1816), Histoire naturelle et medicale des Casses: 82, 92 [basionym]

basionym of: Cassia sect. Senna (Mill.) DC. ex Collad. legitimate

Bentham, G. in Martius, C.F.P. von (1 December 1870), Leguminosae II. Swartzieae et Caesalpinieae. Flora Brasiliensis 15(2): 83, 96 [basionym]

basionym of: Cassia subg. Senna (Mill.) Benth. legitimate

Symon, D.E. (December 1966), A revision of the genus Cassia L. Caesalpiniaceae in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 90: 76 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cassia subg. Senna (Mill.) Benth. legitimate

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 596, 597 [secondary reference]

Irwin, H.S. & Barneby, R.C. (1982), The American Cassiinae : a synoptical revision of Leguminosae tribe Cassieae subtribe Cassiinae in the New World. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 35(1): 64 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Senna alexandrina Miller

Randell, B.R. (1 August 1988), Revision of the Cassiinae in Australia. 1. Senna Miller sect. Chamaefistula (Colladon) Irwin and Barneby. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 11(1): 23 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cassia sect. Senna (Mill.) DC. ex Collad. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Cassia subg. Senna (Mill.) Benth. legitimate

Randell, B.R. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Senna. Flora of New South Wales 2: 317 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Caesalpiniaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 351-352 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Caesalpiniaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 198-199 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 170 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 36-37 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Caesalpiniaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 659 [secondary reference]

Randell, B.R. & Barlow, B.A. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Senna. Flora of Australia 12: 89 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Cassia L. legitimate by Persoon, C.H. (1817), Synopsis Plantarum 1: 459

Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 90 [secondary reference]

Wiecek, B. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Senna. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 370 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 106 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Cassia L. legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 279 misapplication: Cassia L. legitimate by Persoon, C.H. (1817), Synopsis Plantarum 1: 459

• APC Comment: B.R.Randell & B.A.Barlow, Fl. Australia 12: 89-138 (1998) noted that many of the taxa recognised in Australia were not normal sexually reproducing populations, but were the product of (often repeated) polyploidy, apomixis and hybridisation. They treated these taxa as 'form taxa' to draw attention to their anomalous genetic makeup. This approach has not met with uniform approval, taxa are here treated using traditional species and infraspecies nomenclature.
• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT, Vic (native and naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 789 [secondary reference]

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