Brotero, F. d'Avellar (1805), Flora lusitanica, seu, Plantarum, quae in Lusitania vel sponte crescunt 2: 160 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "in sabulosis, agris macris, circa Conimbricam, ubi etiam colitur, et alibi in Beira usque ad Tagum. et colles maritimos de Caparica."

Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2: 307 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W. (1976), Student's Flora of North Eastern New South Wales 3: 424 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 125 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 98 [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: 288 [secondary reference]

common name: French Serradella [n/a]

Gardner, C.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Ornithopus. Flora of New South Wales 2: 446 [secondary reference]

common name: French Serradella [n/a]

Gardner, C.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Ornithopus. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 614 [secondary reference]

common name: French Serradella [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Ornithopus sativus Brot. subsp. sativus legitimate

• APC Comment: Treated as Ornithopus sativus subsp. sativus in Vic.
• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (doubtfully naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Barker, R.M. & Lang, P.J. (10 July 2012), Name changes associated with the South Australian census of vascular plants for the calendar year 2011. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 25: 102 [secondary reference]

common name: French Serradella [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Ornithopus sativus Brot. subsp. sativus legitimate

Baker, M.L., Wapstra, M. & Lawrence, D. (20 August 2019), An annotated census of the lesser-known naturalised plants of Tasmania. Muelleria 38: 46 [secondary reference]

common name: French serradella [n/a]

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