Blake, S.T. (1954), Botanical contributions of the Northern Australia Regional Survey. II. Studies on miscellaneous northern Australian plants. Australian Journal of Botany 2(1): 119, pl. 2 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "NORTHERN TERRITORY. – E. of mouth of Daly R., 13°23′ S., 130°32′ E., open Pandanus– Eucalyptus forest, grey sandy soil, 44 m, 30.vii.1946, Blake 16670 (under-shrub with tufted, erect stems 30–60 cm high; sage-green leaves subglaucous beneath; petals pink, the standard whitish in upper part) – fl., fr. (TYPE)."

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 240 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 52 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 94 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 33 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 65, Fig. 20 [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. (25 January 1999), Desmodium Desv. (Fabaceae) and related genera in Australia: a taxonomic revision. Austrobaileya 5(2): 222, map 10 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Holtzea umbellata Schindl. legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT

Parker, C.M. & Biggs, L.J. (1 May 2014), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2013. Nuytsia 24: 55 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Dendrolobium stipitatum Beard orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Holtzea umbellata Schindl. legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT

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