Desvaux, N.A. in Desvaux, N.A. (ed.) (1814), Memoire et Observations sur la Famille des Plantes Legumineuses. Journal de Botanique, Appliquee l'Agriculture, a la Pharmacie, a la Medicine et aux Arts 3(2): 76 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Antillis."

Hartley, W. (1953), Standardized Plant Names: a revised list of standard common names for the more important Australian grasses, other pasture plants, and weeds. Bulletin (CSIRO) 272: 24 [secondary reference]

Munk, W.J. de (1962), Preliminary revision of some genera of Malaysian Papilionaceae III - a census of the genus Crotalaria. Reinwardtia 6(3): 209 [secondary reference]

Polhill, R.M. (1968), Miscellaneous notes on African species of Crotalaria L.: II. Kew Bulletin 22(2): 262 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Crotalaria pallida Aiton var. pallida legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 119 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Crotalaria pallida Aiton legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 277 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Crotalaria pallida Aiton legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Crotalaria pallida var. obovata (G.Don) Polhill legitimate

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