Michaux, A. (1803), Flora Boreali-Americana Edn. 1, 2: 70, pl. 39 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1825), Leguminosae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 2: 348 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1855), Botany of Victoria (Southern Australia). Extracts of Letters from Dr. Ferdinand Mueller, Colonial Botanist, Victoria. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 7: 362 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Psoraleopsis F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud.

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 240 [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: 140 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 128 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: Named after M. Lespedeza, a Governor of Florida.

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 2: 402 [secondary reference]

• Type: Lespedeza sessiliflora Michaux

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 248 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 230, Fig. 222. [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 601 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 123 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 312-313 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Lespedeza. Flora of New South Wales 2: 412-413 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Fabaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 672-673 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Lespedeza. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 578 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 484 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Lespedezia Spreng. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic

Adema, F.A.C.B. (27 November 2019), Notes on Malesian Fabaceae (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) 18. The genus Lespedeza. Blumea 64: 273 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Lespedezia Spreng. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Psoraleopsis F.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Lespedeza sect. Eulespedeza Schindl. nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic

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