Maiden, J.H. (1917), Notes on Acacia, No. II. — tropical Western Australia (including descriptions of new species). Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51: 116-117 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Slopes of Bold Bluff; hills near C. 92, in proximity to the Synnott Range; hills by the Charnley and Calder Rivers (W.V.F.). Always on andesite."

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]

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

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Mimosaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 317-319, Fig. 98C [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 17, Fig. 7 [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 132-133 [secondary reference]

Tindale, M.D. & Kodela, P.G. (31 July 1996), Acacia valida (Fabaceae, Mimosoideae), a new species from Western Australia and the Northern Territory, as well as the typification and revision of A. pachyphloia. Australian Systematic Botany 9(3): 311 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (chosen here): hills near C. 92 [Camp 921, in proximity to the Synnott [Synnot] Range ('near Synnott Range' handwritten in pencil on original newspaper label), W.A., W.V. Fitzgerald 1267, July 1905 (NSW 65871); isolectotype: PERTH 00765864, n.v.; syntypes:slopes of Bold Bluff, W. V. Fitzgerald, n.v.; hills by the Charnley and Calder Rivers, W. V.Fitzgerald, n.v.

• Text: "... Fitzgerald alone should be the authority of this species."

Kodela, P.G. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11A: 198 [secondary reference]

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Kodela, P.G. (27 April 2006), New combinations in the genus Vachellia (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae) from Australia. Telopea 11(2): 236 [basionym]

basionym of: Vachellia pachyphloia (W.Fitzg.) Kodela legitimate

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