Savi, G. (1824), Continuazione della Memoria II sopra i generi Phaseolus et Dolichos. Nuovo Giornale dei Letterati ser. 3, 8: 113 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Bentham, G. in Mitchell, T.L. (1848), Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia: 350, 388 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 258 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Strophostyles Elliott legitimate taxonomic synonym: Plectrotropis Schumach. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scytalis E.Mey. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 41 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Callicysthus Endl. legitimate

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35(2-3): 273 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 117, 120 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 144 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 135 [secondary reference]

common name: Cow Peas [n/a]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 326 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: After Domenico Vigna, professor of botany at Pisa, where he died in 1647.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 480 [secondary reference]

Bandet, J.C. (1978), Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 48: 215 [secondary reference]

• Type: Vigna villosa Savi, nom. illeg.

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: 160-231 [secondary reference]

Crisp, M.D. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae) - most genera. Flora of Central Australia: 170 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 130 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 323-324, 328 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.L. & James, T.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Vigna. Flora of New South Wales 2: 421 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae). Flora of the Kimberley Region: 456 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Fabaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 230 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 185 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 112-113 [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: 100 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & James, T.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Vigna. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 581 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 217 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 897-898 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Callicysthus Endl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Callicystus F.Muell. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), CoI, ChI (naturalised), NT, SA, Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI, NI

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