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

• Type: "Habitat in India."

Paxton, J. (May 1847), Clitoria ternatea major (Greater Clitoria). Paxton's Magazine of Botany 13(148): 79 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (10 March 1884), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 1: 3 [secondary reference]

Holtze, M. (1892), Introduced plants in the Northern Territory. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 15: 2 [secondary reference]

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

common name: Ears of Vishnu [n/a] common name: Molucca [n/a]

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 772 [secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 244 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 239 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 316, 320, Fig. 53E [secondary reference]

common name: Butterfly Pea [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 92 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 33 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae). Flora of the Kimberley Region: 378-379, Fig. 111F [secondary reference]

common name: Butterfly Pea [n/a]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Fabaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 227-228 [secondary reference]

common name: Bunga Biru [n/a] common name: Butterfly Pea [n/a]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 57, Fig. 18 APC [secondary reference]

common name: Blue Pea [n/a]

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

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 153 [secondary reference]

common name: Darwin Pea [n/a] common name: Butterfly Pea [n/a]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. (2003), Australian tropical rain forest plants. Trees, Shrubs and Vines: Code 2653 [secondary reference]

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

common name: Cordofan Pea [n/a] common name: Bunga Biru [n/a] common name: Blue Pea [n/a] common name: Butterfly Pea [n/a]

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