Maiden, J.H. (1920), Notes on Acacias, No. IV, with descriptions of new species. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 53: 178 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "The Tammin specimens (J.H.M., Sep. 1909) may be taken as the type."

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: 5 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Acacia fragilis Maiden & Blakely legitimate

Cowan, R.S. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11B: 58-59, Fig.13A-C, I, Map 84 [secondary reference]

• Type: Tammin, W.A., Sept. (sphalm. Nov.) 1909, J.H.Maiden s.n. ; holo: NSW; iso: K, NSW, PERTH.

Cowan, R.S. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11B: 58 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Acacia fragilis Maiden & Blakely legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Acacia fragilis Maiden & Blakely legitimate

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