Mueller, F.J.H. von (1863), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 3(22): 127 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In collibus arenosis deserti ad flumen Murray prope Kulkoyne."

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 352 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 44 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 108 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 274, Fig. 133, B [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 407, Fig. 562B [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 352 [secondary reference]

common name: Harrow Wattle [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 146 [secondary reference]

Maslin, B.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Mimosaceae (family and Acacia). Flora of Central Australia: 129, Fig. 158G [secondary reference]

common name: Harrow wattle [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 83 [secondary reference]

Morrison, D.A. & Davies, S.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Acacia. Flora of New South Wales 2: 368 [secondary reference]

common name: Harrow Wattle [n/a]

Entwisle, T.J., Maslin, B.R., Cowan, R.S. & Court, A.B. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Mimosaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 624-625, Fig. 125m [secondary reference]

common name: Harrow Wattle [n/a]

Maslin, B.R. (8 June 1999), Acacia miscellany 16. The taxonomy of fifty-five species of Acacia, primarily Western Australian, in section Phyllodineae (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Nuytsia 12(3): 313-314 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "sand ridges near Kulkyne, Victoria, August 1858, J. Dallachy (lecto: MEL 26132 here designated); in the Murray desert especially near Kulkoyne [sphalm. Kulkyne, near Hattah, Victoria, December 1853, F.Mueller s.n.] (paralecto: MEL 26130, PERTH 04340310 - fragment ex MEL); Australia felix ['almost certainlty the Kulkyne area. far N.W. Vic., leg. F.v. Mueller, Dec. 1858' - J.H. Willis in sched.] (probable paralecto: MEL 26134, ex herb Sonder); Kulkyn[e] and Mourpall], [F. Mueller s.n.] (probable paralecto: MEL 26133); Murray Desert, F. Mueller s.n. (paralecto: K); Murray River [F. Mueller] (probable paralecto: K.)."

Maslin, B.R. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11A: 480, 482 [secondary reference]

• Type: sand ridges near Kulkyne, Vic., Aug. 1858, J.Dallachy ; lecto: MEL26132, fide B.R.Maslin, Nuytsia 12: 313 (1999); in the Murray desert especially near Kulkoyne [sphalm. Kulkyne, near Hattah, Vic., Dec. 1853, F.Mueller s.n. ]; paralecto: MEL26130, PERTH; probable paralecto: Australia felix ['almost certainly the Kulkyne area, far N.W. Vic., leg. F.v.Mueller, Dec. 1853' -J.H.Willis in sched.], MEL26134 (ex herb. Sonder); Kulkyn[e] and Moornpool [Mournpall] [F.Mueller s.n. ], MEL26133; Murray Desert, F.Mueller s.n. , K; Murray River [F.Mueller ], K.

common name: Harrow Wattle [n/a]

Kodela, P.G. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Acacia. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 439 [secondary reference]

common name: Harrow Wattle [n/a]

Pedley, L. (3 December 2003), A synopsis of Racosperma C.Mart. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Austrobaileya 6(3): 447 [basionym]

basionym of: Racosperma acanthocladum (F.Muell.) Pedley legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma acanthocladum (F.Muell.) Pedley legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, NSW, Vic

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