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: 7, t. vi. [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Fitzgerald Range (Maxwell, per Herb. Hort. Bot. Kew. Stamped Herbarium Hookerianum, 1867). The type."

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 87 [secondary reference]

Maslin, B.R. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11A: 415, Fig. 47K-M, Map 252 [secondary reference]

• Type: Fitzgerald Ra., W.A., G.Maxwell ; holo: NSW.

orthographic variant: Acacia maxwelli Maiden & Blakely orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Acacia ramosissima Benth. nom. illeg.

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 maxwellii (Maiden & Blakely) Pedley legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Acacia maxwelli Maiden & Blakely orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma maxwellii (Maiden & Blakely) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia ramosissima Benth. nom. illeg.

• APC Dist.: WA

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