Maslin, B.R. (11 October 1983), Studies in the genus Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) - 13. Four new species from north-western Australia. Nuytsia 4(3): 370-373, Figs 2, 6 (map) [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Gibb River road (between Derby and Wyndham) near Ellenbrae turn-off, Western Australia. ... 25 August 1980, P. Luscombe s.n. (holo: PERTH; iso: K, PERTH)."

• Etymology: "The specific epithet refers to very long, coarsely filiform phyllodes."

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 85 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Mimosaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 302-304 [secondary reference]

Cowan, R.S. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11B: 200, Fig. 42Q-S, Map 278 [secondary reference]

Maslin, B.R. (9 July 2001), Wattle - Acacias of Australia: - [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. (3 December 2003), A synopsis of Racosperma C.Mart. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Austrobaileya 6(3): 465 [basionym]

basionym of: Racosperma filamentosum (Maslin) Pedley legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma filamentosum (Maslin) Pedley legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

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