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: 14, t. xiii. [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Near Bendering, on Sandalwood Reserve in thickets of Melaleuca laxiflora and Acacia acuminata; flowers December and January (C.A. Gardner, No. 1870, 4th December, 1922). The type."

Maslin, B.R. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11A: 292 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Acacia leptopetala Benth. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Acacia leptopetala Benth. legitimate

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