Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1056-1057 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Gleditsia triacanthos L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 476 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1972), Flora of the Sydney Region Edn. 2: 277 [secondary reference]

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

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 96 [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Caesalpiniaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 394 [secondary reference]

Wiecek, B. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Gleditsia. Flora of New South Wales 2: 313 [secondary reference]

Ross, J.H. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Gleditsia. Flora of Australia 12: 55-56 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised)

Wiecek, B. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Gleditsia. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 365 [secondary reference]

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