Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 776 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 338 [secondary reference]

Lindley, J. in Mitchell, T.L. (1838), Three Expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia 1: 253 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 186 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 38 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 136 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 128-129 [secondary reference]

common name: Clover [n/a]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 311 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: A diminutive of the Greco-latin trigonus, triangular, on account of the appearance of the corolla of T. Foenum-graecum.

Green, M.L. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species. Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists: 177 [secondary reference]

• Type: Trigonella foenum-graecum L.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 455 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 147 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 224 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 152 [secondary reference]

Crisp, M.D. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae) - most genera. Flora of Central Australia: 173 [secondary reference]

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

Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Trigonella. Flora of New South Wales 2: 452 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Fabaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 721 [secondary reference]

Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Trigonella. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 621 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 871 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA (native and naturalised), Qld, NSW, Vic

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