Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 768 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Queensland: durre Savannenwälder bei Jericho (DOMIN III. 1910)."

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1: 26 [secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2: 28 [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. (25 January 1999), Desmodium Desv. (Fabaceae) and related genera in Australia: a taxonomic revision. Austrobaileya 5(2): 250, map 39 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (3 October 2014), Appendix A. Name and status changes 2013 census to 2014 census. Census of the Queensland Flora: 22 [secondary reference]

Ohashi, K., Ohashi, H., Nemoto, T. & Nata, K. (20 October 2020), Phylogenetic analyses for classification of the Desmodium group of Leguminosae Tribe Desmodieae 4. Desmodium and Oxytes in Oceania. Journal of Japanese Botany 95(5): 265 [basionym]

basionym of: Maekawaea macrocarpa (Domin) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi legitimate

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