Bentham, G. in Hooker, W.J. (1842), Notes on Mimoseae, with a synopsis of species. London Journal of Botany 1: 380 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "May-Day Island, V. Diemen's Gulf, N. Coast, Cunningham."

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 391 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 45 [secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 233 [secondary reference]

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. (1974), Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium 15: 2 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "May Day I., Van Dieman Gulf, May 295/1818 Cunningham (K)"

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]

Anonymous (1988), The 1987-88 Annual Report of the Botany Branch and the Queensland Herbarium. Botany Focus: 25 [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. (5 October 1988), Racosperma Martius (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in Queensland and New Zealand: supplement to the checklists of species. Austrobaileya 2(5): 571-5 [basionym]

basionym of: Racosperma latescens (Benth.) Pedley legitimate

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 13, Fig. 5 [secondary reference]

Cowan, R.S. & Maslin, B.R. (11 January 1995), Acacia Miscellany 11. Miscellaneous taxa of northern and eastern Australia of Acacia section Plurinerves (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Nuytsia 10(1): 80-81 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Acacia dineura F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia dissoneura F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Racosperma latescens (Benth.) Pedley legitimate

Cowan, R.S. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11B: 153, Fig. 33J-L, Map 218 [secondary reference]

• Type: May Day Is., Van Dieman Gulf [N.T.], May 1818, A.Cunningham 295 ; lecto: K, fide L.Pedley, Contr. Queensland Herb. 15: 2 (1974); isolecto: K, PERTH (fragment ex K); ?isolecto: A, NSW, NY.

nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma latescens (Benth.) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia dineura F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia dissoneura F.Muell. legitimate common name: Ball Wattle [n/a]

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

common name: Ball Wattle [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Acacia latescens Benth. var. latescens legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma latescens (Benth.) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia dineura F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia dissoneura F.Muell. legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT

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