Hochstetter, C.F.F. (1846), Flora: oder Allgemeine Botanischer Zeitung 29: 598 [primary reference]

• Type: Piliostigma reticulata (DC.) Hochst.

• Comment: nom. cons. (ref. I.C.B.N. (1988) No. 3528).

Milne-Redhead, E.W.B.H. (1950), Hooker's Icones Plantarum 35: subt. 3460, p. 2 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 334 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Bauhinia L. legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Caesalpiniaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 350 [secondary reference]

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

George, A.S. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Bauhinia. Flora of Australia 12: 160 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Bauhinia L. legitimate

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

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 666 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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