Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 740-741 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Nordost-Queensland: Cape York, W. HANN, Cape York Peninsular Expedition No. 40"

Grimes, J.W. (31 October 1997), A revision of Cullen (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae). Australian Systematic Botany 10(4): 615 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Nordost-Queensland: Cape York, W.Hann, Cape York Peninsula Expedition No. 40. (lectotype, here designated, PR 4563; isolectotype K).

Grimes, J.W. (31 October 1997), A revision of Cullen (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae). Australian Systematic Botany 10(4): 615 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Cullen lachnostachys (F.Muell.) J.W.Grimes legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Cullen lachnostachys (F.Muell.) J.W.Grimes legitimate

Holland, A.E. (17 December 2013), Cullen spicigerum (Domin) A.E.Holland (Fabaceae), a new combination and reinstatement of a north Queensland species. Austrobaileya 9(1): 140 [basionym]

basionym of: Cullen spicigerum (Domin) A.E.Holland legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cullen spicigerum (Domin) A.E.Holland legitimate

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