Desvaux, N.A. in Desvaux, N.A. (ed.) (1813), Precis des caracteres de plusieurs genres de la famille des Legumineuses. Journal de Botanique, Appliquee l'Agriculture, a la Pharmacie, a la Medicine et aux Arts 1(2): 122, pl. 5, fig. 19 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 236 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 40 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 140 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 127-128 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: From the Greek oura (a tail), probably referring to the bracts under the flowers.

Hutchinson, J. (1964), The Genera of Flowering Plants (Angiospermae) 1: 482 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Uraria picta (Jacq) Desv.

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 310-312 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae). Flora of the Kimberley Region: 455 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 112 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Uraria. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 632 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 886 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

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