Maiden, J.H. & Blakely, W.F. (1927), Descriptions of fifty new species and six varieties of western and northern Australian Acacias, and notes on four other species. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 13: 23, t. xv, Figs 1-5 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "North Australia (F. Mueller, No. 28, per Herb. Hort. Bot. Reg. Kew), the precise locality unknown."

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]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 50 [secondary reference]

Kodela, P.G. & Tindale, M.D. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11B: 195, Map 271 [secondary reference]

• Type: North Australia, 1867, F.Mueller 28 ; holo: K; iso: NSW, ?MEL.

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): 475 [basionym]

basionym of: Racosperma mallocladum (Maiden & Blakely) Pedley legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma mallocladum (Maiden & Blakely) Pedley legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (August 2017), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2016 census to 2017 census. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2017: 22 [secondary reference]

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