Cowan, R.S. & Maslin, B.R. (25 July 1995), Acacia Miscellany 15. Five groups of microneurous species of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae: section Plurinerves), mostly from Western Australia. Nuytsia 10(2): 234-235 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "between Morawa and Perenjori [precies locality details withheld for conservation reasons], Western Australia, 31 Aug. 1982, R.J.Cumming 2199 (holo: PERTH 00191043; iso: CANB, K)."

• Etymology: "The epithet is chosen in allusion to the similar appearance of this taxon to A. enervia subsp. explicata, which differs in having 5-merous flowers, from conformis, Latin for similar."

Briggs, J.D. & Leigh, J.H. (1996), Rare or Threatened Australian Plants: 94 [secondary reference]

Cowan, R.S. & Maslin, B.R. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11B: 80-81, Fig. 17T-V, Map 117 [secondary reference]

Maslin, B.R. (9 July 2001), Wattle - Acacias of Australia: - [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. (3 December 2003), A synopsis of Racosperma C.Mart. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Austrobaileya 6(3): 469 [basionym]

basionym of: Racosperma inceanum subsp. conforme (R.S.Cowan & Maslin) Pedley legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma inceanum subsp. conforme (R.S.Cowan & Maslin) Pedley legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

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