Bentham, G. in Hooker, W.J. (1842), Notes on Mimoseae, with a synopsis of species. London Journal of Botany 1: 326 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Swan River, Drummond."

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 327 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 43 [secondary reference]

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35(2-3): 290 [secondary reference]

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

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Mimosaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 217, Fig. 62 [secondary reference]

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): 325-326 [secondary reference]

• Type: "holo: K - sheet stamped Herb. Benthamianum; iso: K - sheet stamped Herb. Hookerianum, PERTH 00193007 - fragment ex K."

Maslin, B.R. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11A: 521 [secondary reference]

• Type: Swan R., W.A., 1839, J.Drummond s.n. ; holo: K; iso: K, PERTH.

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

Pedley, L. (3 December 2003), A synopsis of Racosperma C.Mart. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Austrobaileya 6(3): 452 [basionym]

basionym of: Racosperma barbinerve (Benth.) Pedley legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma barbinerve (Benth.) Pedley legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 100 [secondary reference]

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