Bentham, G. (May 1855), Plantae Muellerianae: Mimoseae. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 26(5): 619 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Australia austro-occidentalis, Drummond, coll. V.? n. 52."

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 370 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (1875), Revision of the Suborder Mimosae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 30(3): 472 [secondary reference]

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

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1887), Iconography of Australian Species of Acacia and Cognate Genera Decas 5: - [secondary reference]

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35(2-3): 303 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 110 [secondary reference]

Maiden, J.H. (1916), Notes on Acacia, (with description of new species), No. I. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 49(3): 495 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 412 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Acacia murrayana F.Muell. ex Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia frumentacea Tate legitimate

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

Maslin, B.R. (25 July 1995), Acacia Miscellany 14. Taxonomy of some Western Australian "Uninerves-Racemosae" species (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae: section Phyllodineae). Nuytsia 10(2): 196 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (here selected):south-western Australia, J.Drummond 52 (K, upper right-hand specimen on herb. Hooker sheet; isolecto: BM, K - other specimens on lectotype sheet, MEL, OXF, P, PERTH 00763144 and 01941070 - fragment ex MEL, and 01941089 - fragment ex K).

Maslin, B.R. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11A: 292-293, Plate 11, Fig. 21A-F, Map 117 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Acacia subglauca var. angustiuscula Maiden & Blakely legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia subglauca Maiden & Blakely legitimate

Maslin, B.R. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11A: 371 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Acacia murrayana F.Muell. ex Benth. legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 370

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Acacia murrayana F.Muell. ex Benth. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1887), Iconography of Australian Species of Acacia and Cognate Genera Decas 5: -

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Acacia murrayana F.Muell. ex Benth. legitimate by Maiden, J.H. (1916), Notes on Acacia, (with description of new species), No. I. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 49(3): 495

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): 473 [basionym]

basionym of: Racosperma leptopetalum (Benth.) Pedley legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma leptopetalum (Benth.) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia subglauca Maiden & Blakely var. subglauca legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia subglauca var. angustiuscula Maiden & Blakely legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia subglauca Maiden & Blakely legitimate

• APC Comment: Maslin (2001) discussed unnamed variants in this species. The name was misapplied to A. murrayana by Bentham, Mueller & Maiden in the 19th & early 20th centuries. Presumed hybrids are known between A. merrickiae and A. leptopetala.
• APC Dist.: WA

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Acacia murrayana F.Muell. ex Benth. legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 370

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Acacia murrayana F.Muell. ex Benth. legitimate by Bentham, G. (1875), Revision of the Suborder Mimosae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 30(3): 472

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Acacia murrayana F.Muell. ex Benth. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1887), Iconography of Australian Species of Acacia and Cognate Genera Decas 5: -

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Acacia murrayana F.Muell. ex Benth. legitimate by Maiden, J.H. (1916), Notes on Acacia, (with description of new species), No. I. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 49(3): 495

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Acacia murrayana F.Muell. ex Benth. legitimate by Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 412

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