Linnaeus, C. (2 June 1756), Centuria II. Plantarum: 29 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in India."

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xliii [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1862), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 3(21): 104 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 197 [secondary reference]

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 trifoliata (L.) Kuntze legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 136 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 742 [secondary reference]

Kort, I. de & Thijsse, G. (1984), A revision of the genus Indigofera (Leguminosae - Papilionoideae) in Southeast Asia. Blumea 30(1): 137-139 [secondary reference]

• Type: as "Linnaeus 923–3 (LINN), India."

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 290-291, Fig. 48A [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 96 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 35 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Indigofera. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 411-413, Fig. 125C [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: 89, Fig. 26 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. & Rowe, R. (11 November 2008), A revision of the Indigofereae (Fabaceae) in Australia. 2. Indigofera species with trifoliolate and alternately pinnate leaves. Telopea 12(2): 297-298 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Anila trifoliata (L.) Kuntze legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Anil trifoliata A.D.Chapm. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Anila trifoliata (L.) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Indigofera trifoliata L. subsp. trifoliata legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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