Mueller, F.J.H. von (1859), Some hitherto unknown Australian plants. Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria 3: 55 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "On the margin of rocky creeks flowing into the Nicholson and Van Alphen rivers."

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 191 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 38, 142 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 194 [basionym]

basionym of: Lotodes balsamica (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 241 [secondary reference]

Maconochie, J.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Psoralea. Flora of Central Australia: 167 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2: 238 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 98 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 35 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae). Flora of the Kimberley Region: 425, Fig. 130B [secondary reference]

Grimes, J.W. (31 October 1997), A revision of Cullen (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae). Australian Systematic Botany 10(4): 636 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: [Queensland or Northern Territory]. On the margins of rocky creeks flowing into the Nicholson and Van Alphen rivers (lectotype, here designated, MEL 694161, isolectotype K (hb. hook.); 'upper Nicholson margin of rocky creeks', 'margin of creeks near .. van Alphen River', 'Van Alphen River', all three on one sheet, MEL 694161)).

Grimes, J.W. (31 October 1997), A revision of Cullen (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae). Australian Systematic Botany 10(4): 636 [basionym]

basionym of: Cullen balsamicum (F.Muell.) J.W.Grimes legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Cullen balsamicum (F.Muell.) J.W.Grimes legitimate

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