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

• Type: "Habitat in India."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1892), Descriptions of new Australian Plants with occasional other annotations (continued). The Victorian Naturalist 8(9): 136 [secondary reference]

Rudd, V.E. (1959), The Genus Aeschynomene in Malaysia (Leguminosae - Papilionatae). Reinwardtia 5(1): 29-30 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Ceylon. Type collected by P. Hermann?"

Anonymous (1983), Annual Report for 1982/83. Annual Report of the Botany Branch and the Queensland Herbarium: 26 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 32 [secondary reference]

Reynolds, S.T. (21 August 1990), Aeschynomeneae (Benth.) Hutch. (Leguminosae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 3(2): 180 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 47, Fig. 16 [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: 93, Fig. 3, 18 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Aeschinomene aspera F.Muell. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Aeschinomene aspera var. oligarthra F.Muell. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Aeschynomene aspera var. oligarthra F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Aeschynomene aspera var. oligartha S.T.Reynolds orth. var.

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld (naturalised)

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