Bentham, G. in Hooker, W.J. (1842), Notes on Mimoseae, with a synopsis of species. London Journal of Botany 1: 344 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Usborne's harbour, N.W. Coast, Wickham."

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 342 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 157, Fig. 128 [secondary reference]

Maiden, J.H. (1918), The tropical Acacias of Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 30: 25 [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. (1972), A revision of Acacia lycopodiifolia A. Cunn. ex Hook. and its Allies. Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium 11: 16-17 [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. (20 July 1978), A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland, Part 1. Austrobaileya 1(2): 229 [secondary reference]

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]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Mimosaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 309, Fig. 95B [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 131 [secondary reference]

• Vernacular: balalagoord (Bardi)

George, A.S. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11B: 388-389, Plate 59, Fig. 84J-L, Map 520 [secondary reference]

• Type: Osborne Harbour near entrance to King Sound, W.A., Wickham ; n.v.

George, A.S. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11B: 399 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Acacia longipedunculata Pedley legitimate by Maiden, J.H. (1918), The tropical Acacias of Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 30: 25

George, A.S. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11B: 397 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Acacia perryi Pedley legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 342

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): 468 [basionym]

basionym of: Racosperma hippuroides (Heward ex Benth.) Pedley legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma hippuroides (Heward ex Benth.) Pedley legitimate

• APC Comment: Possible hybrids are known between A. hippuroides and A. adoxa var. subglabra (George in Flora of Australia 11B: 389, 2001).
• APC Dist.: WA

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