Urban, I. (1928), Symbolae Antillanae seu Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis 9: 457 [comb. et stat. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

basionym: Phaseolus sect. Macroptilium Benth. legitimate

Beadle, N.C.W. (1976), Student's Flora of North Eastern New South Wales 3: 420 [secondary reference]

Maréchal, R.J.J-M., Mascherpa, J.-M. & Stainier, F. (1978), Etude taxonomique d'un groupe complexe d'especes des genres Phaseolus et Vigna (Papilionaceae) sur la base de donnees morphologiques et polliniques, traitees par l'analyse informatique. Boissiera 28: 151-157 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 124 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 322-323, 328 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Macroptilium. Flora of New South Wales 2: 423 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae). Flora of the Kimberley Region: 418 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Fabaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 232 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 91-92 [secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 98 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Macroptilium. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 584 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 212 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 511 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Phaseolus sect. Macroptilium Benth. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised)

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