Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1825), Leguminosae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 2: 294 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "in ins. Timor et Novae-Hollandiae orâ orientali."

Bakhuizen van den Brink, R.C. Jnr (1967), Miscellaneous botanical notes XVI. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 86: 395 [basionym]

basionym of: Swainsona pterostylis (DC.) Bakh.f. legitimate

Thompson, J. (30 September 1993), A revision of the genus Swainsona (Fabaceae). Telopea 5(3): 481 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Swainsona pterostylis (DC.) Bakh.f. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Swainsona pterostylis (DC.) Bakh.f. legitimate

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