Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 755 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 335 [secondary reference]

Rydberg, P.A. (1905), Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club: 658 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Astragalus christianus L.

Black, J.M. (1917), Additions to the Flora of South Australia. No. 11. Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 41: 47 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 322 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: Greco-latin name of the ankle-bone; also of some leguminous plant.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 465 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greco-Latin name of the ankle-bone; also of some leguminous plant."

Barneby, R.C. (1964), Atlas of North American Astragalus. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 13: 1-1188 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 598, 601 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 118 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 301, 304 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Astragalus. Flora of New South Wales 2: 441 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Astragalus. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 608 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 77 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), Qld (formerly naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

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