Maiden, J.H. (1917), Notes on Acacia, No. II. — tropical Western Australia (including descriptions of new species). Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51: 95-98 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Mueller's No. 93, Lower Victoria River, Northern Territory, is taken as the type, while Mueller's No. 25, from the Roper River, is taken as the co-type."

• Etymology: "It is named in memory of my only son, Harrie Hammond Maiden, who for years before his untimely death, was my companion in the bush, and an assiduous observer and collector of plants."

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 237 [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. (20 July 1978), A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland, Part 1. Austrobaileya 1(2): 155-156 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Acacia sphaerogemma Maiden & Blakely legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 86 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 49 [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. (24 September 1987), Racosperma Martius (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in Queensland: a checklist. Austrobaileya 2(4): 349 [basionym]

basionym of: Racosperma hammondii (Maiden) Pedley legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Mimosaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 307, Fig. 86B [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma hammondii (Maiden) Pedley legitimate

Tindale, M.D. & Kodela, P.G. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11B: 195, Fig. 41M-O, Map 270 APC [secondary reference]

• Type: Lower Victoria R., N.T., F.Mueller 93 ; holo: NSW; iso: K, MEL.

orthographic variant: Acacia hammondi Maiden orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma hammondii (Maiden) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia sphaerogemma Maiden & Blakely legitimate misapplication: Acacia plectocarpa A.Cunn. ex Benth. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1887), Decades1-10. Iconography of Australian Species of Acacia and Cognate Genera: pl. 10 common name: Hammond's Wattle [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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

nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma hammondii (Maiden) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia sphaerogemma Maiden & Blakely legitimate

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