Turczaninow, P.K.N.S. (1853), Papilionaceae. Podalyrieae et Loteae Australasicae Non-Nullae, Hucusque non Descriptae. Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou 26(1): 266 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Drumm. V. n. 46."

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 67 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 35 [secondary reference]

Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2: 256 [secondary reference]

common name: Prickly Globe-pea [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 99 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Fabaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 752 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Sphaerolobium acanthos Crisp legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2: 256

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

misapplied to: Sphaerolobium acanthos Crisp legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2: 256

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA

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