Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 208 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N. Australia. Islands of Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Henne. Queensland. Northumberland Islands, R. Brown; Dawson river, F. Mueller; Endeavour river and Percy Island, A. Cunningham; May Day Island, Armstrong; Wide Bay, Bidwill; Erythrina Creek, Leichhardt."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 39 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 175 [basionym]

basionym of: Cracca filipes (Benth.) Kuntze legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 137 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 750 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cracca filipes (Benth.) Kuntze legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 242 [secondary reference]

Bosman, M.T.M. & de Haas, A.J.P. (1983), A revision of the genus Tephrosia in Malesia. Blumea 28(2): 449-451 APC [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Leichhardt s.n., s.d. (K, proposed here), Queensland, Erythrina Creek."

nomenclatural synonym: Cracca filipes (Benth.) Kuntze legitimate

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

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 294 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2: 280 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 100, 293 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 37 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 105-106, Fig. 30 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Tephrosia. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 573 [secondary reference]

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

misapplied to: Tephrosia leptoclada Benth. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 100, 293

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