Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 163 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Queensland, Port Bowen, R. Brown, also in Leichhardt's Collection."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 37 [secondary reference]

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

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 268 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld

Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4: 76 [secondary reference]

Thompson, I.R. (9 July 2012), A revision of eastern Australian Bossiaea (Fabaceae: Bossiaeae). Muelleria 30(2): 155-156, Figs 10, 11 (map) [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (here selected): K 000278446, image seen in Kew Herbarium Catalogue; probable isolectotype: MEL 95092.

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