Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 713 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 319 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1858), Botanical report on the north-Australian expedition under the command of A.C. Gregory Esq. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Botany 2: 141 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 226 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 40 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 139 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 120-121 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 2: 392 [secondary reference]

• Type: Aeschynomene aspera L.

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 327 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: Greek aiskhynomene, modest, ashamed: the name given by Pliny to some plant with sensitive leaves.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 480 [secondary reference]

Rudd, V.E. (1955), The American species of Aeschynomene. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 32(1): 1-172 [secondary reference]

Rudd, V.E. (1959), The Genus Aeschynomene in Malaysia (Leguminosae - Papilionatae). Reinwardtia 5(1): 23-36 [secondary reference]

Crisp, M.D. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae) - most genera. Flora of Central Australia: 175 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 118 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 303-304 [secondary reference]

Reynolds, S.T. (21 August 1990), Aeschynomeneae (Benth.) Hutch. (Leguminosae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 3(2): 177-202 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Aeschynomene. Flora of New South Wales 2: 428 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae). Flora of the Kimberley Region: 365-366 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 46 [secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 92-93 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Aeschynomene. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 508 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 17 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Aeschinomene Poir. orth. var. orthographic variant: Aeschymomene F.Muell. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA, Qld (native and naturalised), NSW

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Aeschinomene Poir. orth. var. orthographic variant: Aeschymomene F.Muell. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA, Qld (native and naturalised), NSW

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