Maiden, J.H. & Blakely, W.F. (1927), Descriptions of fifty new species and six varieties of western and northern Australian Acacias, and notes on four other species. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 13: 29, t. xviii. [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Between the Ashburton and Yule Rivers (Dr. E. Clement, per Herb. Hort. Reg., Kew). The type."

Tindale, M.D. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Doubtful Names. Flora of Australia 11B: 439 [secondary reference]

• Text: "Identity doubtful but possibly synonymous with A. sphaerostachya E.Pritz."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Acacia sphaerostachya E.Pritz. legitimate

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