Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1825), Leguminosae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 2: 405 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Dolichos gigantea Willd. legitimate

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 254 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 41 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 116 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 144 [secondary reference]

common name: The Black Bean [n/a]

• Vernacular: Na-go

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 133 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 776 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Dolichos gigantea Willd. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Stizolobium giganteum (Willd.) Spreng. legitimate

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 246 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 241 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1: 198 [secondary reference]

common name: Velvet Bean [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 125 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 320-321, Fig. 53H [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Dolichos gigantea Willd. legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 98 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 35 [secondary reference]

Wilmot-Dear, C.M. (1987), A revision of Mucuna (Leguminosae - Phaseoleae) in the Indian subcontinent and Burma. Kew Bulletin 42(1): 38-39 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Mucuna. Flora of New South Wales 2: 414 [secondary reference]

common name: Burny Bean [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae). Flora of the Kimberley Region: 421, Fig. 127G [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Fruits of the Rainforest: 196-197, Fig. 401 [secondary reference]

common name: Burny Bean [n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 182, Fig. 25 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Dolichos gigantea Willd. legitimate

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 305 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 92-93, Fig. 27 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. (2003), Australian tropical rain forest plants. Trees, Shrubs and Vines: Code 2051 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 213-214 [secondary reference]

common name: Burny Bean [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Dolichos gigantea Willd. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Stizolobium giganteum (Willd.) Spreng. legitimate

• APC Comment: Varietal rank not recognised in Qld.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW, LHI

Moura, T.M., Tozzi, A.M.G.A., Gereau, R.E., Mansano, V.F. & Lewis, G.P. (2014), (2283) Proposal to reject the name Dolichos altissimus (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae) thus protecting the name Mucuna gigantea. Taxon 63(2): 439 [secondary reference]

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