Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 376 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in India, Aegypto."

Link, J.H.F. (1829), Handbuch zur Erkennung der nutzbarsten und am häufigsten vorkommenden Gewachse 2: 141 [basionym]

basionym of: Grimaldia absus (L.) Link legitimate

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xliv [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1862), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 3(19): 49, 50 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 290 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 42 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 152 [secondary reference]

common name: Cismatan [n/a] common name: Chichm [n/a]

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 796 [secondary reference]

Wit, H.C.D. de (1955), The Genus Cassia in Malaysia. Webbia; raccolta di scritti botanici 11: 197-292 (279-280) [secondary reference]

• Type: "Holotype in LINN, no. 528.4."

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 236 [secondary reference]

Symon, D.E. (December 1966), A revision of the genus Cassia L. Caesalpiniaceae in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 90: 131 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 238 [secondary reference]

Irwin, H.S. & Barneby, R.C. (1982), The American Cassiinae : a synoptical revision of Leguminosae tribe Cassieae subtribe Cassiinae in the New World. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 35(2): 664 [basionym]

basionym of: Chamaecrista absus (L.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby legitimate

Pedley, L. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Caesalpiniaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 393 [secondary reference]

common name: Hairy Cassia [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 90 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 15 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Caesalpiniaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 346 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Chamaecrista absus (L.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby legitimate

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 31 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Chamaecrista absus (L.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby legitimate

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 75 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Chamaecrista absus (L.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby legitimate

Pedley, L. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Chamaecrista. Flora of Australia 12: 140 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Chamaecrista absus (L.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby var. absus legitimate

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