Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (1824), Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve 2 (2): 93 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not cited).

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 797 [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: 134 [secondary reference]

• Text: "The species is native to tropical Asia ... and Mr. S. L. Everist (in correspondence) does not consider C. lechenaultiana to be established in Queensland."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Comment: An American taxon, now referred to Chamaecrista nictitans subsp. patellaria (Collad.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby, recorded by K.Domin, Biblioth. Bot. 22 (89): 797 (1926), but not known to occur in Australia.

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