Domin, K. (1912), Fifth contribution to the flora of Australia. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 11(16-20): 262 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Queensland, plentiful: Cape Upstart, Voyage of Rattlesnake, Botany no. 237, John MacGillivray, May 20th 1848; Percy Island, A. Cunningham, June 1821; Port Curtis, Voy. of Rattlesnake, Bot. no. 164, MacGillivray, Nov. 1847; Port Molle, Voy. of Rattlesnake, Bot. no. 191, MacGillivray, Dec. 1847; Sunday Isle, A. Cunningham, July 1819, no. 250, etc."

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 751 [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Tephrosia purpurea (L.) Pers. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 129 [secondary reference]

Maconochie, J.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Tephrosia. Flora of Central Australia: 156 [secondary reference]

• Text: "This taxon is a complex"

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 295 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 100 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Tephrosia. Flora of New South Wales 2: 406 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae). Flora of the Kimberley Region: 443, Fig. 134A [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Tephrosia. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 572 [secondary reference]

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

pro parte misapplication: Tephrosia purpurea (L.) Pers. legitimate by Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 464

• APC Comment: Infraspecific rank not recognised in NSW.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

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