Mueller, F.J.H. von (1863), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 3(22): 129 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In cacuminibus borealibus montis Wellington et frequens in monte Useful alpium Australiae altitudine 4500–5000'."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1863), Calyciflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 2: 31 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Acacia longifolia var. alpina F.Muell. nom. inval.

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 397 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 46 [secondary reference]

Maiden, J.H. & Betche, E. (1897), Notes from the Botanic Gardens, Sydney. No. 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 22(1): 148 [secondary reference]

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

Morrison, D.A. & Davies, S.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Acacia. Flora of New South Wales 2: 352 [secondary reference]

common name: Alpine 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: 598, Fig. 121a [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Acacia longifolia var. alpina F.Muell. nom. inval. common name: Alpine Wattle [n/a]

Court, A.B. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Appendix. Flora of Australia 11B: 490-491 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "northern stony ridges of Mt Wellington, Vic., Mar. 1861, F.Mueller s.n.; lecto (here chosen): MEL; isolecto: NSW."

Court, A.B. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11B: 371-372, Fig. 80M-O, Map 498 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Acacia longifolia var. alpina F.Muell. nom. inval. common name: Alpine Wattle [n/a]

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

common name: Alpine wattle [n/a]

Kodela, P.G. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Acacia. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 419 [secondary reference]

common name: Alpine Wattle [n/a]

Pedley, L. (3 December 2003), A synopsis of Racosperma C.Mart. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Austrobaileya 6(3): 448 [basionym]

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

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

nomenclatural synonym: Acacia longifolia var. alpina F.Muell. nom. inval. nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma alpinum (F.Muell.) Pedley legitimate

• APC Comment: Hybrids between A. alpina and A. phlebophylla are recorded on Mt Buffalo, Vic.
• APC Dist.: NSW, ACT, Vic

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