Hooker, W.J. (1825), Galega tricolor. Three-coloured Galega. Exotic Flora 3: 185, pl. 185 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Sent by Messre SHEPHERD from the Liverpool Botanic Garden, July 1825, as a supposed Galega from the north-west coast of New Holland, whence the seeds were introduced by THOMAS BALLS, Esq. of Liverpool."

Sweet, R. (1830), Sweet's Hortus Britannicus Edn. 2: 142 [basionym]

basionym of: Tephrosia tricolor (Hook.) Sweet legitimate

Don, G. (October 1832), A General History of Dichlamydeous Plants 2: 228 [basionym]

basionym of: Callotropis tricolor (Hook.) G.Don legitimate

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