Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (1805), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 6(2): 448 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Rio de Janeiro, Commerson ."

Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1825), Leguminosae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 2: 322 [basionym]

basionym of: Aeschynomene falcata (Poir.) DC. legitimate

Rudd, V.E. (1955), The American species of Aeschynomene. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 32(1): 89 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Aeschynomene falcata (Poir.) DC. legitimate

Cardoso, D.B.O.S, de Mattos, C.M.J., Filardi, F.L.R., Delgado Salinas, A., Lavin, M., Moraes, P.L.R., Tapia-Pastrana, F. & Lima, H.C. de (2 September 2020), A molecular phylogeny of the pantropical papilionoid legume Aeschynomene supports reinstating the ecologically and morphologically coherent genus Ctenodon. Neodiversity 13(1): 17 [secondary reference]

• Type: "BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro, 'le long de la rivière de Rio-Janeiro', P. Commerson s.n. (holotype: P-JU [Catal. No. 15623] – P00678648; isotypes: F0059318F, P02297636, P02297637 [F neg. 36629], P00296593, P02913700)."

Cardoso, D.B.O.S, de Mattos, C.M.J., Filardi, F.L.R., Delgado Salinas, A., Lavin, M., Moraes, P.L.R., Tapia-Pastrana, F. & Lima, H.C. de (2 September 2020), A molecular phylogeny of the pantropical papilionoid legume Aeschynomene supports reinstating the ecologically and morphologically coherent genus Ctenodon. Neodiversity 13(1): 17 [basionym]

basionym of: Ctenodon falcatus (Poir.) D.B.O.S.Cardoso, P.L.R.Moraes & H.C.Lima legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Ctenodon falcatus (Poir.) D.B.O.S.Cardoso, P.L.R.Moraes & H.C.Lima legitimate

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