Thouars, L.M.A. du Petit- in Desvaux, N.A. (ed.) (1813), Observations Botaniques, Economiques et Medicales sur le nouveau genre Canavali. Journal de Botanique, Appliquee l'Agriculture, a la Pharmacie, a la Medicine et aux Arts 1(2): 81 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not cited).

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 239 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 32 [secondary reference]

Hnatiuk, R.J. (ed.) (1990), Census of Australian Vascular Plants: 195 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Fabaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 221 APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Canavalia obtusifolia var. insularis Ridl. legitimate misapplication: Canavalia ensiformis (L.) DC. legitimate by Baker, E.G. in Andrews, C.W. (1900), Polypetalae. A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): 177

• APC Dist.: CoI, ChI, NT, Qld

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]

Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 404: 23 [secondary reference]

common name: Sea Bean [n/a]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 55, Fig. 18 [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 2547 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 203 [secondary reference]

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