Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1825), Leguminosae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 2: 325 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Hedysarum umbellatum L. legitimate

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 230 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Ormocarpum oblongum Desv. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Desmodium australe DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dendrolobium umbellatum (L.) Benth. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 40 [secondary reference]

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

Knaap-van Meeuwen, M.S. (1962), Preliminary revisions of some genera of Malaysian Papilionaceae V - a census of the genus Desmodium. Reinwardtia 6(3): 263-264 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Dendrolobium umbellatum (L.) Benth. legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 240 [secondary reference]

Ohashi, H. (15 February 1973), The Asiatic species of Desmodium and its allied genera (Leguminosae). Ginkgoana, contributions to the flora of Asia and the Pacific Region 1: 82 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dendrolobium umbellatum (L.) Benth. legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 94 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 207 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Dendrolobium umbellatum (L.) Benth. legitimate

Ohashi, H. (2004), Taxonomy and distribution of Desmodium and related genera (Leguminosae) in Malesia (I). Journal of Japanese Botany 79(2): 115 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Dendrolobium umbellatum (L.) Benth. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Dendrolobium umbellatum (L.) Benth. legitimate

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