Bentham, G. in Hooker, W.J. (1843), Enumeration of Leguminosae, indigenous to Southern Asia and Central and Southern Africa. continued. London Journal of Botany 2: 584 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Island of Zanzibar, on the east coast of Africa, Bojer!"

Lee, A.T. (16 November 1978), Some species of Crotalaria in Australia. Telopea 1(5): 355 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Crotalaria usaramoensis Baker f. legitimate

Lee, A.T. & Thompson, J. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 101(2): 153 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Crotalaria usaramoensis Baker f. legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 277-278, Fig. 44F [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.L. & James, T.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Crotalaria. Flora of New South Wales 2: 521 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.L. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Crotalaria. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 502 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym of: Crotalaria trichotoma Bojer legitimate

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