Hooker, J.D. (13 May 1856), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 1(2): 95, pl. 16 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Widley distributed over the northern parts of the Island, from the sea-level to 4000 feet, Lawrence, Gunn."

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 157 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 78 [secondary reference]

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

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 36 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 142 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 147 [secondary reference]

Ross, J.H. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Bossiaea. Flora of Victoria 3: 810, Fig. 164a [secondary reference]

common name: Wiry Bossiaea [n/a]

• APC Dist.: Vic, Tas

Thompson, I.R. (9 July 2012), A revision of eastern Australian Bossiaea (Fabaceae: Bossiaeae). Muelleria 30(2): 130-132, Figs 6, 7 (map) [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (here selected): K 000278235, image seen in Kew Herbarium Catalogue.

taxonomic synonym: Bossiaea hendersonii Regel nom. illeg.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Bossiaea hendersonii Regel nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Bossiaea hendersoni Regel orth. var.

• APC Dist.: Vic, Tas

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 43 [secondary reference]

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