Hooker, W.J. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1842), Bossiaea virgata. Botanical Magazine 69: 3986, pl. 3986 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "A Swan River species, detected and introduced to this country by Mr James Drummond, by seeds, received by Mr Murray in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where the plant flowered in June, 1842."

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 166 [basionym]

basionym of: Bossiaea rufa var. virgata (Hook.) Benth. legitimate

Ross, J.H. (30 March 1994), Notes on Western Australian Bossiaea species (Fabaceae): 2. Muelleria 8(2): 213 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Bossiaea rufa R.Br. legitimate

Ross, J.H. (24 May 2006), A conspectus of the Western Australian Bossiaea species (Bossiaeeae: Fabaceae). Muelleria 23: 108 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Bossiaea rufa R.Br. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Bossiaea rufa R.Br. legitimate

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