Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 744 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 332 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (November 1909), Botany. Contributions to the Flora of Queensland. Queensland Agricultural Journal 23(5): 259 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 139 [secondary reference]

Green, M.L. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species. Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists: 176 [secondary reference]

• Type: Scorpiurus sulcata L.

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 302, 304 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Scorpiuris. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 613 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 783 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: Qld (formerly naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (formerly naturalised)

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