Pritzel, E. (1918), Species novae ex Australia centrali. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 15(20-24): 356 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "in Australia centrali (distr. C. sec. Tate) leg. Basedow, 1903, no. 33."

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 462 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Indigofera longibractea J.M.Black legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 240 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 397 [secondary reference]

common name: Showy Indigo [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 53 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 123 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Indigofera longibractea J.M.Black legitimate

Maconochie, J.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Indigofera. Flora of Central Australia: 158, Fig. 180B [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 96 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 34 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. (13 March 1987), Taxonomic notes on some Australian species of Indigofera (Fabaceae - Faboideae). Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 10(1): 120-122 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. & Rowe, R. (20 December 2010), New taxa and typifications in Indigofera (Fabaceae) for South Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 24: 69 [secondary reference]

• Neotype: (designated here): Northern Territory: Kings Canyon, George Gill Range, 27 Aug. 1980, J.R.Maconochie 2485 (DNA). Isoneotypes: CANB, BRI.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Indigofera basedowii E.Pritz. subsp. basedowii legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT, SA

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Indigofera georgei E.Pritz. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 53

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Indigofera georgei E.Pritz. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 96

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