Mueller, F.J.H. von (1859), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 1(7): 166 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In rupibus graniticis prope originem fluvii Gilbert, altitudine 1000'."

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 283 [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]

Symon, D.E. (December 1966), A revision of the genus Cassia L. Caesalpiniaceae in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 90: 96-97 [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]

Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2: 76 [secondary reference]

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]

Randell, B.R. (21 September 1990), Revision of the Cassiinae in Australia. 3. Senna Miller sect. Senna. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 13: 10 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "`rocky ridges, upper Gilbert River, northern Queensland, altitude 1000 ft.', F. Mueller s.n., s.d. There are in K, 2 sheets (both seen in photos), one of a single leaf with 3 dissociated pods, the other of a leafy terminal shoot and a dissociated flowering stalk bearing one pod. The leafy terminal shoot is here designated as the lectotype, with the single leaf as an isotype."

Randell, B.R. (21 September 1990), Revision of the Cassiinae in Australia. 3. Senna Miller sect. Senna. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 13: 8 [basionym]

basionym of: Senna magnifolia (F.Muell.) Randell legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Caesalpiniaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 357 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Senna magnifolia (F.Muell.) Randell legitimate

Randell, B.R. & Barlow, B.A. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Senna. Flora of Australia 12: 125 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Senna magnifolia (F.Muell.) Randell legitimate

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