Mueller, F.J.H. von (1859), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 1(7): 165 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In terra Arnhem's Land, et circum sinum Carpentariae ad ripas aridiores, rupes et scopulos."

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 284 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 42 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3: 4 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 152 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 293 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 792, Fig. 147 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 430 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Cassia pleurocarpa F.Muell. legitimate

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

• Type: "Holotype: MEL, Isotype K."

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 239 [secondary reference]

Symon, D.E. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Caesalpinaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 107, Fig. 134 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2: 78 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 91 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 16 [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: 8 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "'in terra Arnhem's Land et circum sinum Carpentariae ad ripas aridiores, rupes et scopulos', Northern Territory, F. Mueller s.n., 22.vii.1856, K (photo), here designated."

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 venusta (F.Muell.) Randell legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Caesalpiniaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 360 [nomenclatural synonym]

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

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 79 [nomenclatural synonym]

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

Randell, B.R. & Barlow, B.A. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Senna. Flora of Australia 12: 123 [nomenclatural synonym]

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

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