Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 319 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Musgrave Range. July–Aug. The specimens are very few and not in good condition."

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 469 [secondary reference]

Lee, A.T. (10 September 1948), The genus Swainsona. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 1(4): 229-230, Fig. 37, Map 14 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Glen Ferdinand, Musgrave Ras. S.A., S.A. White, 19.7.1914; JMB."

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 242 [secondary reference]

Taylor, J. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Swainsona. Flora of Central Australia: 165 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 100 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 36 [secondary reference]

Thompson, J. (30 September 1993), A revision of the genus Swainsona (Fabaceae). Telopea 5(3): 477 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

isonym: Swainsona villosa J.M.Black isonym

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA

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