Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1825), Leguminosae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 2: 452 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "in Novâ-Hollandiâ orient. Fruct. ign. (v.s. ex Mus. Par.)"

• Comment: Description expanded by de Candolle in Mém. Légum. (Jan. 1827) 447.

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 376 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 45 [secondary reference]

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]

Maslin, B.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Mimosaceae (family and Acacia). Flora of Central Australia: 131, Fig. 159D [secondary reference]

common name: Ranji bush [n/a]

Maslin, B.R. (14 October 1982), Studies in the genus Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) - 11. Acacia species of the Hamersley Range area, Western Australia. Nuytsia 4(1): 96-97 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Acacia clementii Domin legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 88 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Mimosaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 322, Fig. 88D [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Acacia pyrifolia var. morrisonii Maiden legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia morrisonii Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia clementii Domin legitimate common name: Ranji bush [n/a]

Maslin, B.R. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11A: 384-385, Fig. 42G-M, Map 227 [secondary reference]

• Type: Western Australia [sphalm. ‘in Nova Hollandia orient'], ex herb. P, 1821; holo: G-DC; iso: P; ?iso: BM.

taxonomic synonym: Acacia pyrifolia var. morrisoni Maiden orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Acacia pyrifolia var. morrisonii Maiden legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia clementii Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia morrisonii Domin legitimate common name: Kanji Bush [n/a]

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

Pedley, L. (3 December 2003), A synopsis of Racosperma C.Mart. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Austrobaileya 6(3): 483 [basionym]

basionym of: Racosperma pyrifolium (DC.) Pedley legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma pyrifolium (DC.) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia clementii Domin legitimate

• APC Comment: Subspecies were not recognised in Flora of Australia.
• APC Dist.: WA

Maslin, B.R. & van Leeuwen, S. (2008), Wattles of the Pilbara: 48-49 [secondary reference]

common name: Ranji bush [n/a]

• Etymology: "The species name refers to the shape of the flattened leaf stalks, called phyllodes."
• Vernacular: jilbarli (Kurrama)
• Vernacular: ganyji (Ngarluma)
• Vernacular: kanytyi (Yindjibarndi)

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