Willdenow, C.L. (April 1806), Species Plantarum Edn. 4, 4(2): 1047 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Mimosa virgata L. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1912), Botany. Contributions to the Flora of Queensland. Queensland Agricultural Journal 29(6): 484 [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Mimosaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 332, 335, Fig. 56C [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Mimosa virgata L. legitimate

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 51 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 23, Fig. 11 [secondary reference]

Cowan, R.S. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Mimosaceae. Flora of Australia 12: 20-21, Fig. 35J-N, Map 19 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Mimosa virgata L. legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

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

misapplied to: Desmanthus pernambucanus (L.) Thell. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1912), Botany. Contributions to the Flora of Queensland. Queensland Agricultural Journal 29(6): 484

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Desmanthus pernambucanus (L.) Thell. legitimate by Cowan, R.S. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Mimosaceae. Flora of Australia 12: 20-21, Fig. 35J-N, Map 19

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (28 March 2019), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2018. Nuytsia 30: 2 [secondary reference]

• Text: "New naturalised record for WA. G.J. Keighery in litt. (12/03/2018)."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Mimosa virgata L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Desmodium virgatus Dunlop nom. inval., nom. nud.

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised)

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