Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1825), Leguminosae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 2: 395 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In Novae-Hispaniae montibus Chilapae."

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

Urban, I. (1928), Symbolae Antillanae seu Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis 9: 457 [basionym]

basionym of: Macroptilium atropurpureum (DC.) Urb. legitimate

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: 153 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Macroptilium atropurpureum (DC.) Urb. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Macroptilium atropurpureum (DC.) Urb. legitimate

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Fabaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 233 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Macroptilium atropurpureum (DC.) Urb. legitimate

Calles, T., Lewis, G.P., Berlingeri, C. & Crespo, M.B. (2015), Lectotypification of Macroptilium atropurpureum (Leguminosae). Kew Bulletin 70: 16 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "(designated here): MA! [501663]"

Calles, T., Lewis, G.P., Berlingeri, C. & Crespo, M.B. (2015), Lectotypification of Macroptilium atropurpureum (Leguminosae). Kew Bulletin 70: 16 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Macroptilium atropurpureum (DC.) Urb. legitimate

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