Maiden, J.H. & Blakely, W.F. (1927), Descriptions of fifty new species and six varieties of western and northern Australian Acacias, and notes on four other species. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 13: 23, t. xvi, Figs. 5-10 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Bruce Rock (Dr. F. Stoward, No. 163 (flowers), August, 1917); Kununoppin, same collector, No. 69 (pods), January, 1917."

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 89 [secondary reference]

Cowan, R.S. & Maslin, B.R. (11 January 1995), Acacia Miscellany 10. New taxa and notes on previously described taxa of Acacia, mostly section Juliflorae (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), in Western Australia. Nuytsia 10(1): 44 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (here selected): Bruce Rock, Western Australia, August 1917, F. Stoward 163 (NSW: isolecto: MEL, NSW - both incorrectly labelled "Kununoppin Jan. 1917", and PERTH 01027050 - fragment ex ?Mel). Paralectotype: Kununoppin, Western Australia, January 1917, F. Stoward 69 (NSW).

taxonomic synonym: Acacia aciphylla var. leptostachys E.Pritz. legitimate pro parte taxonomic synonym: Acacia multispicata Benth. legitimate

Cowan, R.S. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11B: 349-350, Fig. 75M-O, Map 464 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Acacia aciphylla var. leptostachys E.Pritz. legitimate pro parte taxonomic synonym: Acacia multispicata Benth. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym: Acacia aciphylla var. leptostachys E.Pritz. legitimate

Pedley, L. (3 December 2003), A synopsis of Racosperma C.Mart. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Austrobaileya 6(3): 486 [basionym]

basionym of: Racosperma sessilispicum (Maiden & Blakely) Pedley legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym: Acacia aciphylla var. leptostachys E.Pritz. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Racosperma sessilispicum (Maiden & Blakely) Pedley legitimate pro parte taxonomic synonym: Acacia multispicata Benth. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

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