Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 741 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Arachis hypogaea L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 329 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1900), The Queensland Flora 2: 408 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 139 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 601 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 306-307, 312 [secondary reference]

Reynolds, S.T. (21 August 1990), Aeschynomeneae (Benth.) Hutch. (Leguminosae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 3(2): 177-202 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 61 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: WA (doubtfully naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NI (naturalised)

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