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

• Type: "Habitat in Brasilia, Peru."

• Comment: Type specimen cultivated in Hort. Upsal., Sweden.

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

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

common name: Pea-nut [n/a]

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 762 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 307, 312, Fig. 51C [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 91 [secondary reference]

Reynolds, S.T. (21 August 1990), Aeschynomeneae (Benth.) Hutch. (Leguminosae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 3(2): 192 [secondary reference]

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

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

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