Desvaux, N.A. in Desvaux, N.A. (ed.) (1813), Precis des caracteres de plusieurs genres de la famille des Legumineuses. Journal de Botanique, Appliquee l'Agriculture, a la Pharmacie, a la Medicine et aux Arts 1(2): 121, pl. 4, fig. 12 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not cited).

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 228 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Smithia conferta Sm. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (13 May 1889), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 4: 5 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Smithia conferta Sm. legitimate

• Comment: Mueller lists "Smithia conferta = S. capitata, ...". Since Smithia conferta Sm. was previously accepted by Mueller on p. 40 of the Systematic Census (1882), Smithia capitata Desv. is here treated as being a newly-accepted name in this Supplement with S. conferta in synonymy.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 69 [secondary reference]

Reynolds, S.T. (21 August 1990), Aeschynomeneae (Benth.) Hutch. (Leguminosae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 3(2): 188 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym of: Smithia conferta Sm. legitimate

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