Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 753 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 334 [secondary reference]

Paxton, J. (1847), Paxton's Magazine of Botany: 79 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 242 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Neurocarpum Desv. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 40 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 143 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 2: 416 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Clitoria ternatea L.

Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. in Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. (ed.) (1979), Index Nominum Genericorum 3: 1733 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Ternatea Mill. legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 316, 320 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae). Flora of the Kimberley Region: 378 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Fabaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 227 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 57 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 205 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 196 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Ternatea Mill. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

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