Fitzgerald, W.V. (1918), The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 3: 154 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "King River (W.V.F.)."

Maconochie, J.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Tephrosia. Flora of Central Australia: 156 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 101 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 37 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae). Flora of the Kimberley Region: 449-451, Fig. 137F APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

Butcher, R. & Cowie, I.D. (24 June 2021), Redefinition of Tephrosia supina (Fabaceae: Millettieae), a north-west Western Australian endemic, and description of two similar species. Nuytsia 32: 78 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Tephrosia lithosperma R.Butcher & Cowie legitimate by Maconochie, J.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Tephrosia. Flora of Central Australia: 156

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