Meisner, C.D.F. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1848), Leguminosae. Plantae Preissianae 2(2-3): 200 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In colonia ad flum. Cygnorum legit Drummond coll. II. no. 161"

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 377 [secondary reference]

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

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35(2-3): 304 [secondary reference]

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

Maslin, B.R. & Cowan, R.S. (14 June 1994), C.F.Meissner's species of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae): typification of the names. Nuytsia 9(3): 411 [secondary reference]

Maslin, B.R. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11A: 446, Fig. 53Q-R Map 293 [secondary reference]

• Type: Swan R., W.A., J.Drummond 161 ; holo: BM, sheet labelled herb. Shuttleworth; iso: G, MEL n.v. , NSW, OXF, P, PERTH (fragment ex MEL), W; see B.R.Maslin & R.S.Cowan, Nuytsia 9: 411 (1994), for note on types

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

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 670 [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. (3 December 2003), A synopsis of Racosperma C.Mart. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Austrobaileya 6(3): 485 [basionym]

basionym of: Racosperma scalpelliforme (Meisn.) Pedley legitimate

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

• APC Comment: There have been suggestions that A. scalpelliformis is a hybrid between A. urophylla and A. divergens (Maslin, 2001).
• APC Dist.: WA

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