Cunningham, A. in Field, B. (ed.) (April 1825), On the botany of the Blue Mountains. Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales: 348 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "upon rocky, brushy hills."

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

taxonomic synonym: Bossiaea decumbens F.Muell. legitimate

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

Mueller, F.J.H. von (10 March 1884), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 1: 4 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 105 [secondary reference]

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

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 117 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 253-254 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 214, Fig. 205. [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 385 [secondary reference]

common name: Matted Bossiaea [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 118 [secondary reference]

Lee, A.T. & Thompson, J. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 101(2): 107-109 [secondary reference]

• Type: "New South Wales: Rocky, brushy hills in the Blue Mountains, A. Cunningham."

taxonomic synonym: Bossiaea decumbens F.Muell. legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 267, 269, Fig. 42C [secondary reference]

James, T.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Bossiaea. Flora of New South Wales 2: 509 [secondary reference]

Ross, J.H. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Bossiaea. Flora of Victoria 3: 811, Fig. 164e APC [secondary reference]

common name: Matted Bossiaea [n/a]

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic

James, T.A. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Bossiaea. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 516 [secondary reference]

Thompson, I.R. (9 July 2012), A revision of eastern Australian Bossiaea (Fabaceae: Bossiaeae). Muelleria 30(2): 133-134, Figs 6, 7 (map) 10 [secondary reference]

Thompson, I.R. (9 July 2012), A revision of eastern Australian Bossiaea (Fabaceae: Bossiaeae). Muelleria 30(2): 132 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Bossiaea decumbens F.Muell. legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 163

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Bossiaea decumbens F.Muell. legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 163

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