Schreber, J.C.D. von (1771), Spicilegium Florae Lipsicae: 26 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Ervum tetraspermum L. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names. Key to the System of Victorian Plants 1: 533 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 39 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 117 [secondary reference]

Ewart, A.J. (1915), Contributions to the Flora of Australia, No. 22. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 27: 304 [secondary reference]

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

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 476 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 164 [secondary reference]

common name: Slender Tare [n/a] common name: Four-seeded Slender Vetch [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 257 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 167 [secondary reference]

common name: Slender Tare [n/a] common name: Four-seeded Slender Vetch [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 730 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 130 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 314 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Ervum tetraspermum L. legitimate common name: Slender Vetch [n/a]

Gardner, C.L. & James, T.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Vicia. Flora of New South Wales 2: 449 [secondary reference]

common name: Slender Vetch [n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 189 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Ervum tetraspermum L. legitimate

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Fabaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 711, Fig. 144e-f [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Ervum tetraspermum L. legitimate common name: Slender Vetch [n/a]

Holland, A.E. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Vicia. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 619 [secondary reference]

common name: Slender Vetch [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Ervum tetraspermum L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Vicia gemella Crantz legitimate taxonomic synonym: Vicia tetrasperma subsp. eutetrasperma Briq. nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 48 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Ervum tetraspermum L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Vicia gemella Crantz legitimate taxonomic synonym: Vicia tetrasperma subsp. eutetrasperma Briq. nom. inval. isonym: Vicia tetrasperma (L.) Moench isonym

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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