Desfontaines, R.L. (1798), Flora Atlantica 2: 192 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "HABITAT inter segetes Algeriae."

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 186 [secondary reference]

Tepper, J.G.O. (1880), On the characteristics and distribution of the native and naturalised plants about Ardrossan, Yorke's Peninsula. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 3: 45 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names. Key to the System of Victorian Plants 1: 533 [secondary reference]

Hamilton, A.G. (1892), On the effect which settlement in Australia has produced upon indigenous vegetation. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 26: 234 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 39 [secondary reference]

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): 267 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 119, 123 [secondary reference]

common name: Melilot [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 133 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Melilotus indicus (L.) All. legitimate common name: Melilot [n/a]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 311 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Melilotus indicus (L.) All. legitimate

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 456 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Melilotus indicus (L.) All. legitimate

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 151 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Melilotus indicus (L.) All. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Melilotus indicus (L.) All. legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 283 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Melilotus indicus (L.) All. legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Melilotus parviflora Desf. orth. var.

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

taxonomic synonym of: Melilotus indicus (L.) All. legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 46 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Melilotus indicus (L.) All. legitimate

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