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: 16, t. xii. [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Near Southern Cross (H. Steedman, August, 1922). The type."

Maslin, B.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Mimosaceae (family and Acacia). Flora of Central Australia: 132, Fig. 159K [secondary reference]

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

Maslin, B.R. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11A: 281, Fig. 18K-M, Map 104 [secondary reference]

• Type: near Southern Cross, W.A., Aug. 1922, H.Steedman s.n. ; holo: NSW; iso: K.

orthographic variant: Acacia steedmani Maiden & Blakely orth. var.

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): 488 [basionym]

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

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

orthographic variant: Acacia steedmani Maiden & Blakely orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma steedmanii (Maiden & Blakely) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acacia sp. Little Sandy Desert (B.R.Maslin 2139) [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA

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

misapplied to: Acacia validinervia Maiden & Blakely legitimate by Maslin, B.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Mimosaceae (family and Acacia). Flora of Central Australia: 132, Fig. 159K

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Acacia steedmanii subsp. borealis Maslin legitimate by Maslin, B.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Mimosaceae (family and Acacia). Flora of Central Australia: 132, Fig. 159K

Maslin, B.R. & van Leeuwen, S. (21 August 2008), New taxa of Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) and notes on other species from the Pilbara and adjacent desert regions of Western Australia. Nuytsia 18: 164 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Acacia steedmanii subsp. borealis Maslin legitimate by Maslin, B.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Mimosaceae (family and Acacia). Flora of Central Australia: 132, Fig. 159K

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Acacia steedmani Maiden & Blakely orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma steedmanii (Maiden & Blakely) Pedley legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Acacia steedmanii subsp. borealis Maslin legitimate by Maslin, B.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Mimosaceae (family and Acacia). Flora of Central Australia: 132, Fig. 159K

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