Schwarz, O.K.A. (28 December 1927), Plantae novae vel minus cognitae Australiae tropicae. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 24(4-13): 86 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Port Darwin: 14 miles E, banks of Milners Creek (Bleeser no. 479)."

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: 88 [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: 319, Fig. 91G [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 17, Fig. 9 [secondary reference]

Tindale, M.D. & Kodela, P.G. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11B: 176, Fig. 37E-G, Map 247 [secondary reference]

• Type: Port Darwin, 14 miles [22.4 km] E [of] banks of Milners Creek, N.T., [F.A.K. ]Bleeser 479 ; holo: B (destroyed); iso: NSW.

taxonomic synonym: Acacia holosericea var. pubescens F.Muell. legitimate

Maslin, B.R. (9 July 2001), Wattle - Acacias of Australia: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Acacia holosericea var. pubescens F.Muell. ex Benth. nom. illeg.

Pedley, L. (3 December 2003), A synopsis of Racosperma C.Mart. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Austrobaileya 6(3): 480 [basionym]

basionym of: Racosperma pellitum (O.Schwartz) Pedley legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma pellitum (O.Schwartz) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia holosericea var. pubescens F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia holosericea var. pubescens F.Muell. ex Benth. nom. illeg.

• APC Comment: A record from Thursday Island, Qld is doubtful (Pedley in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland Vol. 74, 1964).
• APC Dist.: WA, NT

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