Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 199 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N. Australia. Port Essington, A. Cunningham; grassy stony plains, Sea Ranges, F. Mueller."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 39 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 940 [basionym]

basionym of: Anila saxicola (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Kuntze legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1900), The Queensland Flora 2: 388 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 137 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 240 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 34 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. & Rowe, R. in Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Indigofera. Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 88, Fig. 26 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. & Rowe, R. (11 November 2008), Three new species of Indigofera (Fabaceae: Faboideae) from Cape York Peninsula. Telopea 12(2): 286 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Indigofera elachantha Peter G.Wilson & Rowe legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1900), The Queensland Flora 2: 388

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

nomenclatural synonym: Anila saxicola (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Anil saxicola A.D.Chapm. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Indigofera saxicola F.Muell. nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: NT

Wilson, Peter G. (7 March 2014), Typification of some names of Australian species of Indigofera (Fabaceae). Telopea 16: 11 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "(designated here): Sea Range, F. Mueller, Dec. 1855 (K000217355; isolectotypes: MEL586268, GH00066086, TDC00015644)."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Indigofera elachantha Peter G.Wilson & Rowe legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1900), The Queensland Flora 2: 388

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Indigofera elachantha Peter G.Wilson & Rowe legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 137

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