Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 11 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "W. Australia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 21."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 32 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 92 [secondary reference]

Hopper, S.D., van Leeuwen, S.J., Brown, A.P. & Patrick, S.J. (1990), Western Australia's Endangered Flora: 108, 138 [secondary reference]

Crisp, M.D. (30 June 1995), Revision of Brachysema (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae). Australian Systematic Botany 8(3): 332 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Swan River Colony, J.L. Drummond coll. V no. 21 (lectotype, here designated: K; isolectotypes: BM, K (2 sheets), MEL, OXF, P, PERTH, W).

Chandler, G.T., Crisp, M.D., Cayzer, L.W. & Bayer, R.J. (31 October 2002), Monograph of Gastrolobium (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae). Australian Systematic Botany 15(5): 696 [basionym]

basionym of: Gastrolobium subcordatum (Benth.) G.Chandler & Crisp legitimate

---