Mueller, F.J.H. von (May 1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(74): 44-45 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ad amnem Cave-Creek fluminis Gilberti in rupium fissuris; R. Daintree; ad cataractas fluminis Herberti; W.E. Armit."

• Etymology: (not specified.) [but presumably named in honour of W.E. de M. Armit (1848–1901), one of the collectors of the original material]

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

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 132 [secondary reference]

Holland, A.E. & Pedley, L. in Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (ed.) (8 December 2010), Fabaceae. Census of the Queensland Flora 2010: 68 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld

Thompson, I.R. (9 July 2012), A revision of eastern Australian Bossiaea (Fabaceae: Bossiaeae). Muelleria 30(2): 163-164, Fig. 13 (map) [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (here selected): MEL 651099; isolectotypes: MEL 651100, MEL 651101.

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