Mimosaceae R.Br.
Neptunia scutata A.R.Bean , legitimate, scientific
Bean, A.R. (16 November 2022), A revision of Neptunia Lour. (Leguminosae: subfamily Caesalpinioideae, Mimosoid clade) in Australia and Malesia. Austrobaileya 12: 91-92, Fig. 9, Map 11. [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Australia. Northern Territory. Gregory National Park, Bullita section, 14 February 1992, I. Cowie 2376 & P.S. Brocklehurst (holo: CANB 00471857 comprising 1 sheet; iso: DNA D0066573, MEL 0717866A)."
  • Etymology: "From the Latin scutatus, meaning ‘shield-shaped’. This is given in reference to the flattened broadly elliptical fruits that resemble a small shield."
Bean, A.R. (16 November 2022), A revision of Neptunia Lour. (Leguminosae: subfamily Caesalpinioideae, Mimosoid clade) in Australia and Malesia. Austrobaileya 12: 91 [secondary reference]
pro parte misapplication: Neptunia dimorphantha Domin legitimate by Whibley, D.J.E. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Mimosaceae (Neptunia, Prosopis). Flora of Central Australia: 114, Fig. 154A pro parte misapplication: Neptunia dimorphantha Domin legitimate by Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Mimosaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 341, Fig. 101A
Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (21 March 2023), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2022. Nuytsia 34: 4 [secondary reference]