Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 300 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Sturt's Creek, F. Mueller; Gulf of Carpentaria, Landsborough; also Neilson's N.S. Wales specimens."

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 154, Fig. 125 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 291 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 802 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 429 [secondary reference]

Windler, D.R. (1966), A revision of the genus Neptunia (Leguminosae). Australian Journal of Botany 14(3): 416 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Neptunia gracilis Benth. f. gracilis legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 151 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Neptunia gracilis Benth. f. gracilis legitimate

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 51 [secondary reference]

Cowan, R.S. (31 July 1996), Notes on miscellaneous mimosoid legumes (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae), mostly Australian. Nuytsia 11(1): 14 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Sturts Creek, [Western Australia/Northern Territory border], F. Mueller (K-Herb. Hooker, lower right-hand specimen: isolecto: MEL 596306.

Cowan, R.S. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Mimosaceae. Flora of Australia 12: 24 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Neptunia gracilis Benth. f. gracilis legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Neptunia gracilis Benth. f. gracilis legitimate

Bean, A.R. (16 November 2022), A revision of Neptunia Lour. (Leguminosae: subfamily Caesalpinioideae, Mimosoid clade) in Australia and Malesia. Austrobaileya 12: 74 [secondary reference]

• Type: "[Australia. Western Australia/Northern Territory] Sturt’s Creek, [in 1855], F. Mueller s.n. (lecto: K 000791029, lower right-hand specimen, fide Cowan 1996: 14)."

Bean, A.R. (16 November 2022), A revision of Neptunia Lour. (Leguminosae: subfamily Caesalpinioideae, Mimosoid clade) in Australia and Malesia. Austrobaileya 12: 74 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Neptunia heliophila A.R.Bean legitimate

---