Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 745-751 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 332 [secondary reference]

Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1825), Leguminosae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 2: 340-344 [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]

• Lectotype: Hedysarum coronarium L.

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 162 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 165 [secondary reference]

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

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

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 40 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Aphyllodium (DC.) Gagnep. legitimate

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 395 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised), Tas (doubtfully naturalised)

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