Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1825), Leguminosae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 2: 361 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "V. sativa Hoppe. in Sturm. deutschl. fl. I. fasc. 3I. icon. V. sativa nemoralis Pers. ench. 2. p. 307. V. Helvetica hort prag. ex W. Gerhard! (v.s.)."

• Comment: Published as `α obovata'.

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 323 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym of: Vicia sativa L. subsp. sativa legitimate

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