Allioni, C. (1785), Flora Pedemontana 1: 309 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Trifolium messanensis L. legitimate

Ewart, A.J., Rees, B. & Wood, B. (March 1912), Contributions to the Flora of Australia, No. 17. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 24(1): 70 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 457 [secondary reference]

common name: Messina Melilot [n/a]

Stevenson, G.A. (1969), Canadian Journal of Plant Science: 13 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 124 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 97 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Papilionaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 285-286 [secondary reference]

common name: Messina Melilot [n/a]

Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Melilotus. Flora of New South Wales 2: 451 [secondary reference]

common name: Mediterranean Melilot [n/a] common name: Messinia [n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Fabaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 719-720, Fig. 145k-l [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Trifolium messanensis L. legitimate common name: Mediterranean Melilot [n/a]

Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Melilotus. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 621 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Melilotus siculus (Turra) B.D.Jacks. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Melilotus siculus (Turra) B.D.Jacks. legitimate

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