Lindley, J. in Lindley, J. (ed.) (1835), Edwards's Botanical Register 20: 1715, pl. 1715 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "A fine addition to the species of green-house twiners, native of New Holland, where its seeds were collected by Dr. Nisbet. Our specimens were supplied from the garden of Boyd Miller, Esq. of Colliers Wood, near Mitcham."

Meisner, C.D.F. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1844), Leguminosae. Plantae Preissianae 1(1): 89-90 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 249 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1871), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 7(56): 127 [basionym]

basionym of: Caulinia nigricans (Lindl.) F.Muell. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 41 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 171 [basionym]

basionym of: Caulinia nigricans (Lindl.) Kuntze isonym

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35(2-3): 272 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 129 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 477 [secondary reference]

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

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Kennedya nigricans Lindl. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Caulinia nigricans (Lindl.) F.Muell. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Caulinia nigricans (Lindl.) Kuntze isonym

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), SA (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 45 [secondary reference]

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