Mueller, F.J.H. von (1863), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 3(22): 128 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In tractu Short's Range Australiae borealis. J.Macd. Stuart."

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 392 [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]

Pedley, L. (20 July 1978), A revision of Acacia Mill. in Queensland, Part 1. Austrobaileya 1(2): 206-207 [secondary reference]

Maslin, B.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Mimosaceae (family and Acacia). Flora of Central Australia: 134 [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]

Pedley, L. (24 September 1987), Racosperma Martius (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in Queensland: a checklist. Austrobaileya 2(4): 354 [basionym]

basionym of: Racosperma retiveneum (F.Muell.) Pedley legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Mimosaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 322-323, Fig. 89A [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma retiveneum (F.Muell.) Pedley legitimate

• Comment: J.R.Wheeler in J.R.Wheeler (ed.), Fl. Kimberley Reg. 323 (1992) list the name “Acacia retivenea F.Muell. subsp. retivenea” but this autonym was not established until 1995, in accordance with ICN Art. 26.3 (Melbourne Code, 2012). See R.S.Cowan & B.R.Maslin, Nuytsia 10(1): 76 (1995)).

Cowan, R.S. & Maslin, B.R. (11 January 1995), Acacia Miscellany 11. Miscellaneous taxa of northern and eastern Australia of Acacia section Plurinerves (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Nuytsia 10(1): 74 [secondary reference]

Cowan, R.S. & Maslin, B.R. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11B: 145 APC [secondary reference]

• Type: Short's Ra., [N.T.], J.McDouall Stuart ; holo: MEL; iso: K.

orthographic variant: Acacia retivenia Benth. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma retiveneum (F.Muell.) Pedley legitimate common name: Net-veined Wattle [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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

nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma retiveneum (F.Muell.) Pedley legitimate

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