Black, J.M. (1938), Additions to the Flora of South Australia. No. 37. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 62: 354, t. XX, fig. 2 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Central Australia – 20 miles south of the Granites, August, 1936, J.B. Cleland; west of Mount Davenport, Treuer Range, 1938, Ben Nicker."

Symon, D.E. (December 1966), A revision of the genus Cassia L. Caesalpiniaceae in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 90: 106 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Cassia oligoclada F.Muell. legitimate

Symon, D.E. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Caesalpinaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 109 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Cassia oligoclada F.Muell. legitimate

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

Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5: 18 [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Cassia curvistylis J.W.Green orth. var.

Randell, B.R. (19 December 1989), Revision of Cassiinae in Australia 2. Senna Miller sect. Psilorhegma (J.Vogel) Irwin & Barneby. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 12(2): 263 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "West of Mt Davenport, N.T., Ben Nicker 1938, AD!, lectotype here designated."

Randell, B.R. (19 December 1989), Revision of Cassiinae in Australia 2. Senna Miller sect. Psilorhegma (J.Vogel) Irwin & Barneby. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 12(2): 263 [basionym]

basionym of: Senna curvistyla (J.M.Black) Randell legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Caesalpiniaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 354 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Senna curvistyla (J.M.Black) Randell legitimate

Randell, B.R. & Barlow, B.A. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Senna. Flora of Australia 12: 118 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Senna curvistyla (J.M.Black) Randell legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Senna curvistyla (J.M.Black) Randell legitimate

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