Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 719 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in pratis Europae borealioris."

Ewart, A.J. & Rees, B. (1912), Contributions to the Flora of Australia, No. 19. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 25(1): 106 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 158 [secondary reference]

common name: Kidney Vetch [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 161 APC [secondary reference]

common name: Kidney Vetch [n/a]

• APC Dist.: Vic (formerly naturalised)

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 43 [secondary reference]

• Text: "... recorded in error, only known from cultivated plants"

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