Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (1805), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 6(2): 448-449 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Cette plante à été recueillie dans le Brésil, à Rio-Janeiro, par Commerson. ( V. S. in herb. Jussieu. )"

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

basionym of: Aeschynomene brasiliana (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): 14 [secondary reference]

• Type: "BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro, circa Rio de Janeiro, Jul 1767, P. Commerson s.n. (holotype: P-JU [Catal. No. 15624] – P00678649; isotypes: V0059317F, P01167838, P02913671, P02913680 [F neg. 36628])."

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): 14 [basionym]

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

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