Gaertner, J. (1790), De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum 2(1): 32, t. 85, fig. 6 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Capnophyllum africanum (L.) Gaertner

Tovey, J.R. & Morris, P.F. (1923), Contributions from the National Herbarium of Victoria, No. 3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 35(2): 196 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 149 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: Vic (formerly naturalised)

---